You have to be a poet

29 December 2017

Elder Porfyrios Kavsokalyvitis was a blessing for everyone. An angelic person. A divine child who played. A fragrance which spread and found its way into every soul. Illiterate but extremely wise. A God-inspired poet, a wordsmith who fashioned people. He used to say: ‘You have to be a poet in order to become a Christian.

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