{"id":625,"date":"2018-04-14T11:36:00","date_gmt":"2018-04-14T11:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.smallpage.online\/2018\/04\/14\/how-st-luke-helped-unfaithful-woman\/"},"modified":"2024-05-24T10:13:29","modified_gmt":"2024-05-24T10:13:29","slug":"how-st-luke-helped-unfaithful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/catalog.obitel-minsk.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/how-st-luke-helped-unfaithful","title":{"rendered":"How St. Luke of Crimea Helped an Unfaithful Woman"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-41098\" src=\"https:\/\/catalog.obitel-minsk.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/\u043e\u0431\u043b-800-\u043d\u0430-534-775x517.jpg\" alt=\"St. Luke of Crimea\" width=\"775\" height=\"517\" srcset=\"https:\/\/catalog.obitel-minsk.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/\u043e\u0431\u043b-800-\u043d\u0430-534-775x517.jpg 775w, https:\/\/catalog.obitel-minsk.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/\u043e\u0431\u043b-800-\u043d\u0430-534-768x513.jpg 768w, https:\/\/catalog.obitel-minsk.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/\u043e\u0431\u043b-800-\u043d\u0430-534.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 775px) 100vw, 775px\" \/><\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">That wonderful story happened to me at one of the exhibitions organized by our convent.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">I was offering people the products made by our convent \u2013 icons, church supplies and other beautiful works. There were many people since everyone wanted to buy some gifts for the coming great feast \u2013 Pascha.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">At one moment I saw two women standing not far from my counter. I understood that they wanted to ask me something but they were too confused. Finally, one of them coped with her embarrassment and decided to address me:<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8211; I am not Orthodox, I don\u2019t know anything about tour faith. Tell me, are there any saint doctors in your Church, who help people to be cured? \u2013 she asked.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8211; Of course, there are. Here is one of them \u2013 St. Luke of Crimea, a surgeon, a genius doctor and our contemporary, &#8211; I replied and handed her a bottle of oil, consecrated on St. Luke&#8217;s holy relics.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">At the very moment she took the bottle, her hand started to bleed. Terrified she looked at her hand, at me, again at her bleeding hand and cried out. She was laughing and crying at the same time. To be honest, her friend and I were just shocked with what was going on. We began to look for a cloth to wipe her hand, but she refused, showed her hand to me and her friend and repeated only one phrase, \u201cDo you see that it\u2019s bleeding? You see?\u201d<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Of course, we saw that and were totally confused. A bit later, the woman wiped her hand. There was no cut or wound on her hand that could bleed so heavily. Seeing wonder in our eyes, in which one could see a lot of questions, she explained everything:<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8211; I am sick. My blood is too thick. To thin the blood, doctors prescribed me to take the meds that have a bad effect on my heart. I did not know whether I should take them or not, and now I\u2019ve got the answer to my question! I really thank your saint! I won\u2019t take any pills! My blood is thin enough and doesn\u2019t clot as the doctors said. I will be tested once again, and may be the results will be different. Then they will prescribe me a more suitable course of treatment.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In front of my eyes, St. Luke made a sign for an unfaithful woman, who believed that an unknown Orthodox saint would help her. According to your faith let it be to you!<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 That wonderful story happened to me at one of the exhibitions organized by our convent. \u00a0 I was offering people the products made&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":41098,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[57],"tags":[23],"class_list":["post-625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-orthodox-christian-saints","tag-modern-day-miracles"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/catalog.obitel-minsk.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/\u043e\u0431\u043b-800-\u043d\u0430-534.jpg","views":{"total":278,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1768313774},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paPyw9-a5","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/catalog.obitel-minsk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/catalog.obitel-minsk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/catalog.obitel-minsk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catalog.obitel-minsk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catalog.obitel-minsk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=625"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/catalog.obitel-minsk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41101,"href":"https:\/\/catalog.obitel-minsk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625\/revisions\/41101"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catalog.obitel-minsk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/catalog.obitel-minsk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catalog.obitel-minsk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catalog.obitel-minsk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}