He shared the experience in a letter to his parish, writing: “During the last week of September, I began to notice an unbelievably strong smell of myrrh, at home, in my car, even at work. I couldn’t explain it,” He continued by saying: “We were afraid. We asked one another if we had recently cleaned or anointed the icons, and both of us said ‘no.'”

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