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Father Gavriil Vărvăruc from Aiud speaks to us
Our duty is to continue the work that Father Justin Pârvu began to teach us, fulfilling the Father's desire to especially preach about the holy martyrs from the communist prisons, who today are great wonderworkers and great intercessors before God for the entire Romanian nation and the entire Orthodox Church everywhere.
Miraculous Conception of Children
A priest's wife from Cluj could not get pregnant for four years. I gave the priest and his wife oil from the saints' lamp, telling them to take three drops in the morning, after antidoron and holy water. They did so, and the priest's wife became pregnant. Also, at one point, an external cyst of about 4 mm grew on this woman's chest, and she told me that she applied oil from the saints in the morning, and by evening, it was gone.
A young couple from Pitești, husband and wife, were very saddened that they could not have children and were thinking of trying to live in purity with one another. I spoke to them about the saints and gave them oil from the saints' lamp to take together. The wife had a virus in her body which, if she had become pregnant, would have caused many complications for the fetus, this also contributing greatly to their state of despair. But, through divine miracle, she became pregnant and, after the last medical analysis, it was found that the virus had disappeared from her body.
A Mother's Tears
The sisters of a 46-year-old man from Bucharest came to Aiud in January, weeping desperately, because they had been to Saint Nectarios, to Saint Ilie Lăcătușu, to pray for their brother, who was hospitalized, operated on his brain, and was in a coma due to a very large tumor, with doctors giving him no chance of survival. And, going to "Radu Vodă", they learned from a woman that there are saints who perform great miracles in Aiud, and they came here, weeping bitterly before the icon of the Mother of God and the holy relics.
I gave them oil and told them to anoint the sick man's head with the sign of the Holy Cross. When they arrived in Bucharest, they did just that. And after they anointed him with oil, the doctors changed their minds and put him back into surgery. They operated on him and ‒ a divine miracle! ‒, three days after the operation he was on his feet, without memory loss, without dizziness, without any adverse reaction to the problem he had had in his head.
And during Holy Week, on Maundy Thursday, they all came together to Aiud and wept with joy. The man himself drove the car from Bucharest to Aiud, to give thanks to the saints for this miracle that was performed for him. I even saw the operation: a quarter of his head was cut in the forehead area. His mother kept speaking of the multitude of tears shed for her child, saying that her tears had dried up, and she thanked the Mother of God and the holy martyrs for healing him.
Your heart would break when you looked at them. They are a great testimony of faith of an entire family who prayed for their brother, that God might heal him.
From "Confessors from Communist Prisons: Miracles, Testimonies, References"
Ed. Areopag, 2021
Photograph from "Lumina" newspaper