An interesting narrative! Elder Iakovos is incidentally the same Elder who asked for and received intercession on the part of the Divine Powers, and specifically Saint David of Evia, after foreseeing the installation of Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew in 1989, at a time when Bartholomew was still relatvely junior as Metropolitan of Chalcedon, and his predecessor was quite hale and hearty.
After Bartholomew served a liturgy at Evia, Iakovos 'peered into his soul' and determined that Bartholomew was intended to be Patriarch, despite a recent Turkish action seeking to not permit the consideration of synodal metropolitans.
According to another entry in Professor Stylianos Papadopoulos's The Garden of the Holy Spirit: Elder Iakovos of Evia, the Elder asked Saint David to 'meddle up the Turkish papers and assure that Bartholomew became the Patriarch.' This was apparently the beginning of a life-long friendship, as correspondence between the two shows.
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