MIRACLE IN THE KIEV-PECHERSKAYA LAVRE

When during the Great Patriotic War the Germans occupied Kiev, the German commandant of the city wished to visit the world-famous Caves of the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra. To do this, we found a guide - a monk, a former inhabitant of this monastery. 

The monk went ahead with a lighted candle, followed by Germans with electrophones. The commandant was carrying a revolver in his hand. Near the shrine of the St. Spiridon Prospernik, who died 800 years ago, he stopped and asked what these relics were made of. The monk began to explain that these are the bodies of people, their holy life honored incorruptibility. The commandant with the handle of the revolver struck the hand of the Monk Spiridon. And then the inexplicable happened. 

Dry, darkened from the ages, the skin burst on his wrist, and blood rushed from the wound (traces of three dried up streams of it are visible and now on the hand of the saint). The commandant fled in horror from the cave, and behind him the whole of his retinue.

The next day on the city radio the German commandant's office announced that the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra was being opened, and those who wished could settle in it. Similar announcements appeared throughout the city on pillars and fences. 

From the biography of St. Kukshi (Velichko) of the Confessor