“After filling those two tanks [of water] I made the sign of the cross, put one on my back and heal the other with my hands. Father Gerasimos looked at me and felt sorry for me. At the time I was just skin and bones – sick and weekend by asceticism. Those tanks must have weighed more than I… The really difficult part though was going down the mountainside because of my feet slipped I would have fallen straight down the cliff and I would have either been killed or crippled. So I was filled with fear and trembling but the prayers of Geronda never abandoned me.”
Elder Ephraim narrating
~My Edler Joseph