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When not serving, Papa Nicholas was always found attending to his flock: taking confessions, giving counsel, visiting the poor and sick. He was famously absent minded, engrossed in heavenly things, and was also well known for giving to the poor anything that anyone might give him. He was not an educated man by any stretch of the imagination, but was immensely holy, a humble righteous man who shows us by his example the way to theosis. He reposed, his face wreathed in a smile, in 1932, and thousands came to honor him.
When we were in Athens, we were fortunate enough to visit St. John the Hunter. A new church has been built, and his relics are contained there. Arising from his reliquary, we noticed a sweet, indescribable scent. Afterwards, we visited the old altar area of the original church, which has been preserved. Like most such shrines in Greece, people leave flowers, icons and small mementos when they come to light a candle and pray before the altar where God, through his servant Nicholas, performed so many miracles. <ref> Blog Spot on Evlogeite.com </ref/>
==See also==
*[http://www.ocf.org/OrthodoxPage/reading/planas.html Fr. Jacob Meyes announcement of Canonisation]
*[http://evlogeite.com/?p=74 Another Modern Saint] Published March 2, 2005
*[http://southern-orthodoxy.blogspot.com/2007/03/st-nicholas-planas-of-athens.html/ Short Bio & picture on Southern Orthodoxy Blogspot] (North Carolina, Texas)
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