Saint Isidore and his children revealed in 1953 Crete

In the spring of 1953 a priest began appearing in dreams to villagers of Vali in Crete. A grocer and chanter named Demetrios saw a priest who told him to dig at a specific place on the grounds of the old primary school to "remove" him from there. The priest identified himself as Papa-Tsiteris and said he had been slaughtered by the Saracens during the initial Turkish raids on the island before the 1650s, together with his two children Irene and George.

Demetrios wrote the name on a shoe carton and fell asleep again. The priest appeared a second time saying "Wake up, and do what I told you." Demetrios went to the location and dug, uncovering three skeletons, an adult and two children.

Further revelations to the residents disclosed that the priest had been beheaded with his children in the church he served while celebrating the Divine Liturgy. Christians had gathered their relics and buried them with heads placed at their feet, and the skeletons were found in exactly that position. The account is compared to the revelation of the Holy New Martyrs Raphael, Nicholas, and Irene in 1959 on Lesvos.

On October 18, 1953 the relics were translated to the Church of Saint Demetrios in Vali. In September 2003 the people of Vali erected a church in his honor, and at the behest of the Metropolitan it was named "Saint Isidore the New Martyr." Today only portions of the relics remain for veneration because an impious nun stole the greater portion.

The memory of the newly revealed Saints Isidore, Irene, and George is celebrated on October 18.