PROPHECIES AND SAYINGS
You will see people flying in the sky like blackbirds and hurling fire on the earth. Those alive then will run to the graves and shout: “Come out, you who are dead, and let us who are living in.”
The cause of the general war will come from Dalmatia. Austria will be dismembered first and then Turkey.
That which is desired [i.e., freedom] will come in the third generation. Your grandchildren will see it.
France will liberate Greece, [while] Italy (will liberate) Epiros.
The villages of the plain will suffer destruction, while people at the foot of (Mount) Kissavo will go to sleep slaves and will awaken free.
The time will come when your enemies will take away from you even the ashes from your fires, but don’t give up your faith as others will do.
The red hats [ie., the French] will come here [Kephallenia], and then the English for fifty-four years, and then this place will become Roman [i.e., Greek Orthodox].
The time will come when people will speak from one far place to another, for example, from Constantinople to Russia, as though they were in adjoining rooms.
A time will come when the harmony that exists now between clergy and laymen will not be.
The time will come when the devil will make his turns with his pumpkin.
They will put a tax on chickens and on windows.
Clergymen will become worse and more impious than everyone.
There will come a time when your enemies will even take away from you the ashes from your fire, but do not deny your faith, as others may do.
People will become impoverished because they will have no love for trees.
You will see in the plain a carriage without horses which will run faster than a rabbit.
The rich will become poor and the poor will die.
The time will come when the Romans [i.e., the Greek Orthodox] will fight among themselves. I recommend harmony and love.
A foreign army will come. It will believe in Christ, but it will not speak the (Greek) language.
After the general war, the wolf will live with the lamb.
People will become poor because they will become lazy.
They will seek to take you as soldiers, but they will not do so in time.
The Turks will learn the secret three days sooner than the Christians.
When you hear that the war has started from below (the south), then it will be near.
If the war starts from below (the south), you will suffer little. If it starts from above (the north), you will be destroyed.
The crags and the pits will be full of people.
It will come you will suffer less be in the field or the horse on the threshing floor.
It is sad for me to say it to you: today, tomorrow we will endure thirst and great hunger such that we would give thousands of gold coins but still will not find a little bread.
After the war, a man will have to run half an hour hungry, such other another human being to join him in fellowship.
They will ask for your rifles. Retain two. Give one and keep the other. A single rifle will save a hundred souls.
Out of schools will come things which your mind can’t imagine.
Have a cross on your forehead so that they know that you are Christian.
There will come a time when your enemies will even take away from you the ashes from your fire, but do not deny your faith, as others may do.