This is not for debate of course...
) so upon marrying her he declaired he is not a church goer... My mother was always a firm believer herself sometimes thought she was married to a "pagan" (hehe) obviously not a "church goer". His mother (my grandma) was ultra religious of course with miracles taking place in her own life time. I seems like his life was following a "senario" we have seen so often...The pious mother and the rebellious son... the non-believer at least the one who doubts everything. My father served in the army during the german occupation and he never thought twice about church altough a theist himself never 'knowing' who that God truly is...In one point of his life he had a serious surgery and a miracle that proved to him the existance of God and Theotokos as now she came to him and graced him with her presence... She told him that he will come out of surgery and when he asked for her name she did told him that she was the "Damasta" or a certain monastery he had never heard of or new it existance.... To make a long story short, he came to see that Theotokos of the icon in the icon of the actual Damasta and tears came down his eyes. Today he still goes to the Monastery every single year on its feast day... He has become a church goer a person of prayer and his doubts have vanished. The Ever Virgin has given him faith into her Son and her God. I wanted to offer this as a part of my dad's devortion and indeed conversion to show that among "faithfull" or baptized EO we have also conversion stories that are as important and point to one thing:
