The following miracle happened at the beginning of the war in Balasich, a town near Moscow.
The Soloviev family had four children. The mother was on her death bed. Her ten year old daughter, Paraskevi, stood at the window crying. She suddenly heard a sound on the window. Wiping, with her hand, the frozen window, she saw an old man with a cord wrapped around his shoulder. He said to her: “My girl, do not cry. Your mother will not die.” Paraskevi quieted down and went to tell her neighbors of this.
“My mother will not die. An old man told me.”
“Which old man?”
“The one who knocked on my window. He had a cord on his shoulder. He told me that mama would not die.”
They showed her some icons. Among them she recognized St. Nicholas who was portrayed with an omophorion and holding a gospel. In the Eastern Orthodox and Eastern Catholic liturgical tradition, the omophorion is the distinguishing vestment of a bishop and the symbol of his spiritual and ecclesiastical authority.