St. Porphyrios and the man from America.
One day a man from America visited St. Porphyrios of Kavsokalyvia and told him that he had arrived at the conclusion that there is no God.
St. Porphyrios did not react, but only told him:
“-You recently bought a field in California. Now that you are going back home go to the left side of the field, where there is a faucet, dig to a depth of 1-1,5 meters and you will find Spanish gold coins and an amphora! Go, do what I told you and then come back and let’s talk on whether there is a God.”
The man from America did not believe the elder’s sayings, however, when he returned back home and went to his field, he thought of digging just out of curiosity. Indeed, he dug at that place and found the exact number of the coins, their chronology and the amphora just as the Saint had told him!
The man from America was shocked. Next summer he visited again Saint Porphyrios and told him what had happened. The elder listened to him carefully and at the end, he told him:
“-My child, you do not know what exists in your own field, how can you know what exists in Heaven?
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