Elder Ephraim of Arizonas Testimony Concerning the Marble King John

Athonite elders say the Marble King is St. John Vatatzis the Merciful, Emperor of Nicaea. His relics were totally incorrupt and located in a tomb in Asia Minor along with his royal garments! But with the conquests of the Franks and Turks they lost the trail of the holy and incorruptible full-body relic, which is located, it seems, in Istanbul, hidden in a secret cave, which only a few Crypto-Christians know about, who guard the sacred secret for centuries, awaiting the resuurection of the Marbled King! Elder Ephraim of Arizona, former Abbot of Philotheou, Mount Athos, has spoken about the existence of John [Ioannis]. This information was transmitted to his Elder Joseph the Hesychasts synodeia well before 1955 by Bishop Hierotheos from Asia Minor. This was also the bishop who ordained Elder Ephraim. Bishop Hierotheos told them that he had seen the sleeping King John with his own eyes! Elder Ephraim speaks about this event on various cassettes: There is a sleeper General named John who the Archangel Michael will then indicate to Christians that he will reign now. He will indicate the place to them with his finger and they will call him to lead and reign over the Greek Orthodox people. And this will happen! Years ago there was an Archpriest named Hierotheos on Mount Athos. He came from Asia Minor and the Ecumenical Patriarchate placed him on Mount Athos to perform ordinations, memorial services, liturgies, etc. He was a holy Archpriest in the type of St. Nicholas. I was counted worthy of the Priesthood by this holy Archpriest from Asia Minor. Blessed man of God! One thing I will tell you. What vigils that we did! This 80 year old man did fifteen hour vigils without sitting at all in the seat. He descended from his throne in the stall again upright. And in the Liturgy which followed three hours after the long Orthros, standing! We placed a chair for him to sit down and he did

not want it. He said, Still our Panagia does not tire me even when he was trembling from fatigue. This holy Archpriest told us he saw the sleeping General John, who will be resurrected when the great 3rd World War takes place! He saw him! Because the lips of an archpriest don't lie. So, he told us the truth. And we asked him. For at that time my blessed and holy Elder was still alive (the famous Joseph the Hesychast and Cave-Dweller), and all our synodeia and had gotten him in our church and we sat there and asked him questions. And he said it. We heard with our ears. He said, There is this sleeping King and he will resurrect again! We said, When, Elder? When, holy Archpriest of God? He said, When the third World War takes place! And he also told us that, The right hand of the King is on the handle of the sword! Which sword is in the scabbard. And he said, when the sword is out of its sheath, then the third World War will start. And we, out of our curiosity asked him: Your Reverence, how far is the sword out of the sheath? He replied, Just a few centimeters remain to come out!

This revelation of Archpriest Hierotheos, took place shortly before the events of the 1955 pogroms in Constantinople and Smyrna, when the Blessed Elder Joseph the Hesychast and Cave-Dweller was still alive. He fell asleep in the Lord on August 15, 1959 AD. SOURCE: http://www.agioritikovima.gr/