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Father Nicephorus was born Nicholas Tzanakakis in 1890 in a village of Serikari of Chania, Crete. His parents, who were simple and pious villagers, died while he was a small child, leaving him an orphan, under the care of his grandfather. When he was thirteen he moved to Chania and began to work in a barbershop. Soon after he began to show signs of Hansen's disease (i.e. leprosy). When he was sixteen years old his disease became more visible. As leprosy was a transmissible disease that was treated with fear, Nicholas fled to Egypt to escape an exile to Spinaloga, an island leper colony. The disease continued to advance as he worked in a barbershop in Alexandria, Egypt. At the suggestion of a [[clergy|cleric]] who told him of ''Lovokomeio'', the home for lepers on the island of Chios, Nicholas fled again.

Many people began to visit the leper monk Nikephoros, to receive his blessing. Confined to his bed, racked with pains and barely able to see, he would call on his visitors saying, "My children, do you pray? And how do you pray? …with the prayer of Jesus you should pray, with the "Lord Jesus Christ, have mercy on me". Thus you should pray."

Pe [[1 decembrie]] 2012, [[Sfântul Sinod]] al [[Biserica Ortodoxă a Constantinopolului|Patriarhiei Ecumenice]] a Constantinopolului a săvârşit [[proslăvire]]a Sf. Nichifor, iar numele acestuia a fost adăugat în calendarul Bisericii Constantinopolului.

*Announcement (in Greek): [http://fanarion.blogspot.com/2012/12/blog-post_3.html Φος Φαναριου].

[http://full-of-grace-and-truth.blogspot.com/2010/01/righteous-nikephoros-leper-1890-1964.html St. Nikephoros the Leper (+1964)]

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