Nectarios died in 1920, following a short hospitalization for prostate cancer. His body was taken to Aegina and buried at the monastery he had founded. Soon there were reports of miracles. On the night of his passing, a patient who was lying next to him touched Nectarios’ shirt and was miraculously cured. Myrrh was seen flowing from the saint’s face and his followers kept opening his grave to collect it. Two decades later, his body, largely intact until then, suddenly crumbled but when his relics were removed from the grave these was a sweet scent of myrrh in the air. The Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople recognized Nectarios as a saint in 1961.