Submarine Crisis
 St Nicholas Center collection |
In the 1980’s a Russian nuclear submarine was in trouble in the Pacific Ocean. Its engine had stopped and refused to restart. Even in those Soviet times, however, one of the young sailors remembered that his grandmother had told him that St Nicholas always protects sailors. And, despite everything around him, he remembered to pray to St Nicholas at that moment.
And through his prayers the engine started up again, over a hundred sailors were saved, and the world preserved from untold pollution. St Nicholas is among us still today, here and now, preserving all who pray to him from danger and evil.
As told by Archpriest Andrew Phillips, Sermon on the Feast of St. NicholasHermitage of the Holy Cross, Felixstowe, England, December 19, 2015. Used by permission.