Ortodox beekeeper - Gods Miracle ! The icons bless the bees … and the bees protect the icons ! In the region near Athens, a wonderful thing happens. A devout ortodox beekeeper named Sidoros Ţiminis, living in the region of Kapandriti, near Athens, has kept a tradition: every spring, he slips icons of Christ, the Holy Virgin and different saints in his beehives, in order to bless his bees and his yearly honey production.. Soon thereafter , when he opened the hive, he was amazed that the bees showed respect and devotion to he icon, having embroidered it in wax, yet leaving uncovered the face and body of the Lord. Since then, every spring, he puts into the hives icons of the Savior, the Virgin Mary and the Saints, and the result is always the same. Once I bought a handmade icon from a convent, that represented Golgotha with three crosses. Bees embroidered with wax the entire surface of the composition, leaving one to clearly perceive the Cross of Christ and the Thief at his right hand while the thief on the left cross was covered whit a thick layer of wax. And every year, the very same mysterious phenomenon occurs: bees make their honeycomb cells around the pious images, meticulously avoiding covering them.
The mystery of icon-preserving bees ! Ortodox beekeeper - Gods Miracle !
Ortodox beekeeper - Gods Miracle ! The icons bless the bees … and the bees protect the icons ! In the region near Athens, a wonderful thing happens. A devout ortodox beekeeper named Sidoros Ţiminis, living in the region of Kapandriti, near Athens, has kept a tradition: every spring, he slips icons of Christ, the Holy Virgin and different saints in his beehives, in order to bless his bees and his yearly honey production.. Soon thereafter , when he opened the hive, he was amazed that the bees showed respect and devotion to he icon, having embroidered it in wax, yet leaving uncovered the face and body of the Lord. Since then, every spring, he puts into the hives icons of the Savior, the Virgin Mary and the Saints, and the result is always the same. Once I bought a handmade icon from a convent, that represented Golgotha with three crosses. Bees embroidered with wax the entire surface of the composition, leaving one to clearly perceive the Cross of Christ and the Thief at his right hand while the thief on the left cross was covered whit a thick layer of wax. And every year, the very same mysterious phenomenon occurs: bees make their honeycomb cells around the pious images, meticulously avoiding covering them.
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