Anna Skoubourdis, Nun Christina og Saint John of Kronstadt My Life in Christ

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Our righteous father John of Kronstadt (¿¿¿¿¿ ¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿; October 19, 1829, in Sura - December 20, 1908, in Kronstadt) was an archpriest of the Russian Orthodox Church. He was born as Ivan Ilyich Sergiyev (¿¿¿¿ ¿¿¿¿¿ ¿¿¿¿¿¿¿) in 1829. From 1855, he served as a priest in St. Andrew's cathedral in Kronstadt. Here, he wholly committed himself to charity, especially for those who were remote from the church. He established a factory to provide employment for the poor, and endlessly gave away his money to the needy. traveled extensively throughout the Russian empire. He was a member of the right extremist movement Sojuz Russkogo Naroda (Alliance of the Russian people) but did not commit himself politically. He was already greatly venerated at the time he died. He was glorified by the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia in 1964 and by the Russian Orthodox Church on June 8, 1990. St. John Maximovitch of Shanghai and San Francisco played an active role in preparation of St. John's canonization.

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