Vasiliki Ralli

Vasiliki Ralli was born in Thermi, Lesvos, a few months after the Asia Minor Catastrophe. She hails from Moschonisi in Asia Minor. Her father, Nikolaos Maragos, was held captive by the Turks, while her mother came to Lesvos as a refugee, miraculously escaping the massacre in the tragic September of 1922. Vasiliki graduated from the Higher Girls' School and the French School of Mytilene. Although she engaged with poetry from an early age, in recent years she has offered us wonderful examples of prose, imbued with her love, nostalgia, and deep sorrow for her unforgettable homeland, as well as her profound faith and reverence for God and the Saints. Vasiliki Ralli is the first to have received in a dream the guidance of Saint Raphael regarding the revelation of the relics on her property, and to this day, she remains the primary and most reliable source of information about the "Miracle of Thermi."