St. Paisios the Athonite
This compelling testimony from Mr. Andreas Xenophon, who met Elder Paisios in 1989. During their conversation, the Elder spoke about the future of Cyprus, a coming regional war lasting around four years, and events that eventually involve many global powers.
(Elita): Hello, your name?
(Mr. Xenophon): Andreas Xenophon.
(Elita): Yes Mr. Xenophon, we are listening to you.
(Mr. Xenophon): Yes, I knew Elder Paisios in 1989. After personal problems, I visited him. I stayed with him for almost a… I also asked him about Cyprus. If the Turks will leave Cyprus.
(Elita): Yes Mr. Xenophon, what did he tell you.
(Mr. Xenophon): And he (St. Paisios) answered me, “of course they will leave. But how, we are weak, we cannot drive them away. They (Turkey) will leave on their own”, he tells me. “A war will break out in the region. It will last around 4 years.”
(Elita); 4 years.
(Mr. Xenophon): And, “it will be almost global (the war)” , he tells me.
(Elita): Many powers will participate, obviously.
(Mr. Xenophon): Yes. And. “Turkey will be forced to transfer all its war material and military aid that it has in Cyprus. To take them to reinforce the fighting. And we, as you left, with the buses, with the trucks, with the tractors, in the same way you will go back.”
(Elita): And first we will...
(Mr. Xenophon): And. “They will be, the people will be killed, and we won’t participate in anything instead. Some will be killed, because who now leaves his home where his children were raised, married off, even if they are his own... The same will happen in free Cyprus.”
(Elita): That is.
(Mr. Xenophon): The Turkish Cypriots will come to go to their homes...
(Elita): Ah, there will be a population exchange, each one to go to his house.
(Mr. Xenophon): Yes.
(Elita): These did Elder Paisios tell you.
(Mr. Xenophon): And listen to the strangest thing. I tell him, well, when will it happen. “Eh, it will not take as long as communism lasted in Russia.”
(Elita): 70 something years.
(Mr. Xenophon): But in 1989 communism collapsed. I tell him, Elder, communism has not fallen. “The legs of the Beast(USSR) are trembling, they are dissolving.” He tells me. “They are collapsing and struggling, but in Cyprus it will not take so long like that.”
(Elita): So he foresaw.
(Mr. Xenophon): And. “Why will the war happen? The war will happen for the water.” But he did not explain to me which water.
(Elita): It could be the seawater.
(Mr. Xenophon): It may be our time now. I do not know.
(Elita): Your testimony is shocking Mr. Xenofontos. Where do you come from?
(Mr. Xenophon): I’m from Limassol.
(Elita): Truly, you have told us things that are not even recorded in the book we mentioned before.
(Mr. Xenophon): And look, when I came to Cyprus, I said it in detail. No one believed me and made fun of me. And in 1993-1994, after communism fell, they called me and told me, “Hey Andreas sorry, I misunderstood you”.
(Elita): Mr. Xenophon, you amaze me in the sense that Elder Paisios spoke to you. So clearly, even about the water as you say.
(Mr. Xenophon): When I asked him which water, Elder. Eh he tells me, “let us not say everything…”
(Elita): Let me ask you something, did he tell you that all of Cyprus will be occupied?
(Mr. Xenophon): No.
(Elita): That Turkey will simply be forced to transfer its troops to the fronts.
(Mr. Xenophon): And all the military equipment it has in Cyprus it will transfer elsewhere in order to…(fight against the Russians) and they will not remain. And as you left in 1974, you will go back again.
(Elita): And that this evil, 4 years the war will last… 4 years it will last?
(Mr. Xenophon): Yes and Turkey will be completely destroyed.
(Elita): And what was it that he told you will last less than communism in Russia? About which detail?
(Mr. Xenophon: The liberation of Cyprus.
(Elita): or.
(Mr. Xenophon: The liberation of Cyprus.
(Elita): That it will happen in less time than…
(Mr. Xenophon): In much less.
(Elita): It may be even 60 years though.
(Mr. Xenophon): Yes, then it was 15 years.
(Elita): He did not tell you if you will be…
(Mr. Xenophon): I tell him (St. Paisios) it’s been 15 years that nothing happened. He said, “eh it is little”.
(Elita): Will you be alive, did he tell you if you will be alive to enjoy it, to see it.
(Mr. Xenophon): Someone else who was present there and older than me... He was around 50-55 and he was also a refugee, he tells him “You, will go to your house”.
This testimony of Andreas Xenophon from Limassol, Paisios 1989: “The Turks will leave on their own.” Was later republished on May 1, 2012, through the NOIAZOMAI YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x93Lb7XJbD0&t=3s
This English translation was prepared and uploaded by The Holy Wisdom YouTube channel on March 26 2026.