{"id":772,"date":"2013-12-15T01:02:46","date_gmt":"2013-12-15T01:02:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxviews.com\/?p=2812"},"modified":"2015-06-30T16:06:56","modified_gmt":"2015-06-30T16:06:56","slug":"why-was-blessed-george-calcius-hand-moving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/orthodoxaustralia.org\/?p=772","title":{"rendered":"Why was Blessed George Calciu&#8217;s hand moving?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As we have witnessed just a few days ago, <a href=\"http:\/\/orthodoxaustralia.org\/2013\/12\/10\/blessed-george-calcius-body-found-incorrupt-after-7-years\/\">Blessed George&#8217;s calciu body was found completely incorrupt 7 years after being buried<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In our previous article we mentioned how the Blessed&#8217;s hand is seen moving under the vestments as he lays in the coffin. What could this mean? The answer may be found in <a href=\"http:\/\/prcalciu.wordpress.com\/2011\/04\/14\/acatistul\/\">Blessed George Calciu&#8217;s Akathist<\/a>, which was composed long before his exhumation, where we can read that he used to do the sign of Cross in his sleep on his death bed! In Ikos 12 we can read:<\/p>\n<p>Quote: <em><font color=\"red\">&#8220;Bucur\u0103-te, c\u0103 pe patul mor\u021bii fa\u021ba ta mirosea a t\u0103m\u00eeie \u0219i str\u0103lucea ca-n icoane, rev\u0103rs\u00eend dragostea \u0219i prezen\u021ba lui Dumnezeu, iar \u00een somn, m\u00eena singur\u0103, f\u0103r\u0103 con\u0219tiin\u021b\u0103, f\u0103cea semnul crucii, ar\u0103t\u00eend \u00een afar\u0103 ceea ce erai \u00een l\u0103untru, un om r\u0103stignit \u00eempreun\u0103 cu Hristos<\/font><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Translated in English:<\/p>\n<p><em><font color=\"red\">&#8220;Rejoice, that on your death bed your face was emanating incense odors and was radiant just like in an icon, revealing God&#8217;s love and presence, and in your sleep, your hand alone, without your knowledge, was doing the sign of Cross, showing outwardly what you were inside, a man crucified together with our Lord Jesus Christ&#8221;<\/font><\/em><\/p>\n<p>What are they going to do next? Change the Akathist maybe?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As we have witnessed just a few days ago, Blessed George&#8217;s calciu body was found completely incorrupt 7 years after being buried. In our previous article we mentioned how the Blessed&#8217;s hand is seen moving under the vestments as he lays in the coffin. What could this mean? The answer may be found in Blessed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxaustralia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxaustralia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxaustralia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxaustralia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxaustralia.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxaustralia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxaustralia.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxaustralia.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxaustralia.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}