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(The Saint John Vatatzis, the Six-fingered king, the emperor of Byzantium, the Great beneficent).

For almost three decades I have been sharing my anxiety about a potential third world war and the ordeal of the Greeks and the whole humanity in general with some other patriots and Christians. According to the legents and the local traditions, the above course of events goes through the conflict to the Turks and the revival of Byzantium. These legends referred to the "marble king", who is six-fingered and has left an uncompleted work and will be resurrected, under God's help, in order to bring it into completion.

But who is this "marble King"? Which is his role referred to and how is it related to what is going to happen in the broader area?

While searching out the identity of this person, which is related, as I have already aforementioned, to all the shattering events forthcoming for the Greek people, I devoted myself in a struggle for the collection of all the prophesies that refer to the savior emperor. The material was hard to find and scattered around and this is the reason why my whole attempt endured for almost twenty-five years. (I conducted my investigation in the Mount Athos, in Jerusalem and in every Monastery of Greece).

On the basis of the study of the twelve prophesies I collected

and I publish at the next pages of the present book, I discovered that the six-fingered marble king is Ioannis Vatatzis, an emperor of Byzantium, who was six-fingered and was also called as "the great gracious".People say that the marble king, who will resurrect in Byzantium, is Constantine Palaeologus, the last Emperor. All the prophets prophesy  about Ioannis and not Constantine. Others talk about Ioannis the Theologue. Ioannis the theologue had never left Ephesus and Patmos nor is he SIX-FINGERED. Others say that it is Ioannis the Prodromus. Prodromus had never left the desert or the river Iordanis, he neither went to Byzantium, nor is he six-fingered. Other people say that it is Constantine the former king of the Greeks. All of our prophets talk about Ioannis and not about Constantine. A lot of people do not know anything about the oncoming worldwide events that will shock humanity.My personal belief is that these facts will be realized, even though some people do not believe so, in the way people did not believe the split into hundreds of pieces of the countries of the Warsaw Convention 20 years ago. I also believe that God will allow the progress of the facts in Turkey, because the prophets are buried in there, also some other saints and emperors of Byzantium, because, in that place, there lies the biggest part of the Holy Cross, which Saint Helen brought to Constantinople, because in there lies the Christ's robe, the sponge, the cane, the spear and many other holy objects.

After the fall of Constantinople everything was left there.

I feel the need to thank the Metropolitan Bishop of Messinia of G.O.C. Gregorius, who has written a lot of prophetic books, he reassured me that it is about John Vatatzis and he helped me to collect a part of the material. I was also affirmend by the Abbot, a monk of Athos the Blessed Ethymios from the Esphigmenoy Monastery of Mount Athos and the hermits, the brothers Nanopouloi, Father Theofilaktos and Panteleimon. I also received affirmation by the bishop of Magnesia G.O.C. Maximus and other hermits of Mount Athos.

Finally, I would like to underline that I maintained the style of writing and the syntax of the prophesies, as they were saved to date through tradition and that the one and only motive of this publication is nothing but my wish for the people to know the truth about the marble Emperor and everything that is going to happen.

In the question of how is it possible for the king to resurrect, we answer that whenever God wishes, the natural order of things gets the worst of it.

It is the first time a prophetic book has been written in Greece exclusively about the Marble Six-Fingered King, Saint Ioannis Vatatzis and everything that is going to happen in Byzantium.

George Valavanis

Writer, Man of letters, Searcher of the Scripts, Member of the Association of Letters and Arts in Thessaly and the Association of Literateur Writers of Larissa (A.L.W.L.).