Nicosia, Cyprus, Nov 16, 2007 / 10:07 am
Two miraculous cures have been reported in Cyprus as a result of contact with the skull of St. John Chrysostom, according to the Associated Press.
Father Paraskevas Agathonos claimed the visiting relic, which normally resides in a monastery in northern Greece, had healed a partially paralyzed teenager and a woman with a broken leg.
"The pain left, she got rid of the crutches and took off the cast," he said of a 42-year-old woman who allegedly recovered after visiting the relic Saturday.
The other cure is said to have involved 16-year old Panayiotis Panayiotou, who had been paralyzed in his right arm and the right side of his face following a brain hemorrhage. He reportedly regained full mobility after venerating the skull.