Greetings in the Lord! What a great information resource!

      My name is Thomas Hulbert and I am a parishoner at the parish of de Helige Johannes de Doper in the Hauge in the Netherlands. Fr. Adriaan, who wrote the biographical sketch of Archbishop John, is our parish priest. At 86 years, he is still serving or at least attending liturgy every day. We have an icon of St. John in our church which was painted before his cannonization by the synodal Church - it is more of a portrait - he is wearing glasses and holding a copy of an icon of the Mother of God. One of his prayer ropes (a metal one) is ther as are his cuffs. There is a Dutch translation of his life with several of his sermons and the akathist to him. We sell the book at our bookshop "Het Pad Van Valaam" in Amsterdam (email: pvvalaam@knoware.nl ) The parish also has a home page (also in English): <home.wanadoo.nl/orthodoxe.kerk.nl> Archbishop John is by far the most influential member of the Church Triumphant in my life - he has been a part of every signifigant point in my life, from my conversion to Orthodoxy from Eastern Religions to my marriage.

      My wife and I are so gratefull to Archbishop John for the many wonders he has worked in our lives - we have decided to adopt the serbian custom of "slava" just so he can be the patron saint of our family!

      God Bless you all.

      Thank you for the Menologion. I have moved to another computer and would not delete it until it was installed on the new one.

       Lord Jesus Christ Son of God, through the prayers of our holy father Vladyka John, have mercy upon us.

       St.John! Please pray for us.

       Excellent website - congratulations. We have commissioned an ikon of St John from the Brotherhood of St Seraphim studio here in the UK. It has photographed this week and we will print cards. As soon as they are ready, we will send copies to you.

      AB St George Orthodox Information Service/Orthodox News
      The White House,
      Mettingham,
      Suffolk NR35 1TP
      UK

       On July 6, 2000 in the Maricaban Orthodox Catholic Community, Mulawin, Marican, Pasay City, Metro Manila, Philippines, served by the Catholic Apostolic Philippine Church, the congregation prayed for the intercession of St. John Maximovitch, the Wonder Worker. There was flooding and storm for four days. But on this date, floods stopped, no rains. We were able to push through with our investiture ceremony and installation to the Order of the Acolyte. The Catholic Apostolic Philippine Church traces its origin to the two Bishops consecrated by Bishop John Maximovitch during his stay in Tubabao Island in Samar Islan, Philippines in 1949. Bishop Tirso Cinco Noble is the present living successor of Bishops David Estonactor and Mariano Alvaran. Every Eucharistic celebration, we pray for St. John Maximovitch's intercessions. The Catholic Apostolic Philippine Church identifies itself with the Orthodox Church, though un canonical and independent.

      Thank you.
      Rev. Fr. Joseph G. Borreros, CSC, Vicar Apostolic.
      You can contact me through this address: phildhrra@netasia.net

      May the Triune God be praised.

       Thank you for this work. may God further your efforts!

      Fr. Philip,
      Community of St. Aethelheard,
      Lincolnshire,
      UK (Antiochian Patriarchate)

      I KNOW IM NOT ORTHODOX. BUT LATELY I HAVE DISCOVERD ORTHODOX.
      AND THE FIRST SAINT I ENCOUNTERD WAS HOLY VALDYKA JOHN.
      AND OTHER SAINTS.
      AND LATELY ST JOHN HASANSWEARD MY PRAYERS.
      AND IM VEARY THANKFUL FOR THIS.
      AND RECENTLY HE HAS ANSWEARD A MAJOR PRAYER REQUEST.

      I HAVE MADE HIM MY PATRON SAINT AND ONE OF OUR FAMILIES PATRON SAINT.
      AND IM GREATFUL FOR MY MOTHER COMING TO ST.JOHN AND THANKING HIM FOR HIS PRAYERS.

      GLORIOUS JOHN PRAY FOR US THE KEEPERS OF FAITH AND OUR ENIMIES!!
      AND IF YOU CAN SERVE DIVINE LITRUIGY FOR ME AND MY FAMILY IN HEAVEN.

      MAY THE LORD BLESS THIS SINFUL WORLD THROUGH HIS SAINT JOHN OF SAN FRANCISCO!

      HOLY JOHN PRAY TO GOD FOR US!!

       Oh, my dear Father,You know all i need. Pray mercyfull Lord to grant me tears and forgive me all my sins! You are my only hope, Vladika Jovan!

       I have to say that the Orthodox Church is a very great religion. I have to say it is just as good, even more grand that the Lutheran Church all put together, which I am a part of.- Andrew Hyun Huss

       Thank you for the beautiful site. I desperately need Vladika John's prayers for me - such a weak believer, and for my family.

       Very nice site!!! I am a huge fan of St. John of San Francisco. This web page is an exceptional tribute to him!

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       I had the blessed joy, as a Deacon, to visit and venerate the Holy Relics of St. John Maximovitch, in the summer of 1994, just a few weeks before my ordination to the Holy Priesthood.

       As a priest, I've found myself facing difficult pastoral and administrative dicisions and I often turn to Vladyka John for his help and intercession during these times.

      Fr. John Filipovich
      St. Mark Orthodox Church
      Bradenton, FL

       I am so glad to find you again after a year of losing your site!

      Father Igor from Russia.

       Hristos a Inviat! Adevarar a Inviat! St. John if you can, please pray for me that I might go to Romania this summer to visit the holy places there. I really miss my country and the Pure Orthodoxy there. So if it is God's will intercede on my behalf that I might see my homeland.

       Thank you for all of your prayers Sf. Ioane and dont forget about my family(Adi si Geni).

       Thank you for this wonderful website on St. John Maximovitch. It is so well done. The Holy father has been an inspiration for me in my ministry.

       Christ is Risen!!!

       This is a Wonderful Page, thanks for making it beautiful! St. John of Shanghai and San Francisco, Pray to God for us! Indeed He is Risen

       NR-San Francisco

       Thank God I've finally found your site again. Loosing it has been like loosing a part of myself.

       Irene, Australia

       During a recent visit to Stockholm, I entered a church on Skeppsholmen which I took to be Lutheran, but discovered when I entered it that an Orthodox congregation (connected to the Kiev Patriarchate) also worshipped there. The people there were very devoted to St John, and had photocopied part of Fr Perekrestovs book Man of God to study. They did not know that the entire book was available; they were very happy to hear that they could obtain complete copies of it if they wished. They wanted to hear from me everything I could tell them about Holy Virgin Cathedral and St Johns Relics, when I told them that I live only a short distance from them. I was very grateful that I was able in my small way to support this community in their devotion to the Saint.

       Glory to God.

       Thanks for your many hours of time spent putting this together! I am a close friend of Father Jacob of Blessed John the Wonderworker in Atlanta, Ga.

       Dan Anderson

       Thank you for this web page. May our Lord continue to be glorified through His presence in St. John.

       Cyril Stagner
       Tucson, AZ

       I've never heard of St. John Maximovitch so I've never had an experiences in that area. I checked out your website after reading a review by you of PhotoTools 3.0. I was surprised to see the 'Fr.' in front of your name. I was raised Catholic so I noticed that right away. Not something you usually see on computer software reviews. I thought it was pretty neat actually. Thanks for the PhotoTools review - I think I'll be buying that - it sounds great!

       In Yeshua HaMashiach (Jesus our Messiah)
       LoveTheSon@aol.com

       I've never heard of St. John Maximovitch so I've never had an experiences in that area. I checked out your website after reading a review by you of PhotoTools 3.0. I was surprised to see the 'Fr.' in front of your name. I was raised Catholic so I noticed that right away. Not something you usually see on computer software reviews. I thought it was pretty neat actually. Thanks for the PhotoTools review - I think I'll be buying that - it sounds great!

       In Yeshua HaMashiach (Jesus our Messiah)
       LoveTheSon@aol.com

       I thank you and St. John for the wonderful gift of the Menologian -- we first found it when we were living in Ireland -- it was a source of comfort there and now in Chicago we need as much or more. thank you very much.

      Mary Jehli Flynn
      Hello to Father Jacob and Father Purcell, dear disciples I have known.

       Dear Father Jacob,

      We would like to thank you very much for this unspeakable sites. For years I wanted to see something like this. My wife is also astonished and glorifies the Lord for giving us such a Saint! Let me kindly ask you to pray for us to St. John Maximovitch. We are hoping to make a trip to Jerusalem at the time of Pascha. We hope the Lord will vouchsafe us this possibility through the intercession of St. John of Shanghai. The point is that we are in Egypt, which is not friendly toward Israel.

       God bless you on your Holy way! Russian sinners,

      Maxim and Elena (maximkl@usa.net)

       Thank you for this wonderful site! My husband and I are recently chrismated Orthodox Christians, and I chose St. John as my patron saint after seeing his icon , before I really knew anything about him. It was almost as if he chose me. This site is the best source for information about Vladika I have found. Truly he is one of the greatest saints of this age. Holy Saint John, pray to GOD for us sinners, for we are weak.

      Johanna Murphy

       Holy Vladika Archbishop St. John of SF/Shanghai:

       Please pray for unworthy priest(s) Neketas Palassis and Demetrios Serfes. And please pray for me worthy Vasiliki with low blood pressure and lousy life style and pray that my sins be forgivened.

      Vasiliki MacGregor Barrowman (packmule_77@hotmail.com)

       I found the web site very interesting and informative. I only recently discovered St. John Maximovitch and since we share the same last name I became even more intrigued about his life and history. If anyone can provide additional information about the Maximovitch lineage I would be very appreciative.

      Sincerely
      Gregory Maximovitch (subrosa@mindspring.com)

       I like your website and have since I was a convert in 1980 albeit in the new calendar GOA church of Panaghia Pantovasilissa Lex Ky.

      I made my first contact with St. John in 1983 as a female serviceman in the US Navy just stationed in San Diego Ca. I was told by a Russian woman who went to St. Nectarios in Seattle where he was at being buried under the altar of Holy Virgin Cathedral in SF so I went for temporary sea duty aboard a ship that was bound for Alameda Naval Air Station in Alameda near Oakland hopped aboard an AC Transit bus than got on BART to SF and then walked quite aways before finally getting exhausted and taking MUNI to 26th ave and Geary Blvd. I like your website and I have been checking it out for quite some time.

      Pray for me Holy Vladika John and if you can do a liturgy for me in Heaven in Chinese if you like.

      Vasiliki R. Barrowman (packmule_77@hotmail.com)

       I remember when shortly after I had became a convert albeit in a new calendar parish in Lex, Ky... Panaghia Pantovasilissa Greek Orthodox Church that getting some Paraphenalia from an Organization that expounded upon the teachings of an excommunicated person named Apostolos Makrakis, there was something in this packet about Archbishop Vladika John of SF and Shanghai. I couldnt put it away...had to post so I could look at it. It seemed like it looked right at me like he knew me but how could that be considering he died long before he one chance to meet a person like myself...and this was in the 1980's as employee at a restaurant owned by a Greek Family that went bankrupt some several yrs later.

       Then in 1983 when I first went to the Russian Cathedral of the Holy Virgin in SF after a month prior of going to Seattle and spending a couple of weeks with 2 parishioners of St.Nectarios while I was in the US. Navy stationed in San Diego Ca(which was a shock from being in Ky Air National Guard as a weekend warrior). The feeling of meeting the Saint before he got cannonized in 1994 was like an orphan getting welcomed. If I had a ton of sins on me or not he didnt shy away from me. And when it was my turn in the barrel to be put thru the legal ringer due to some bad choices he didnt shun me then... and just think I was living near the Cathedral on just off of 27th Ave in 1994 when he was getting cannonized and thanks to another bad choice I got married out of the church and gave up on it...well my second future ex woke me by cheating on the internet and now I am trying to get back on my feet for the past 3 yrs here in a crazy town named Oakland(hey if you aint Oakland born and raised you dont count worth a darn and this is one crazy town compared to San Francisco and the conservatism here is like pouring too much catsup on the fries believe me.).

       So Pray for me too Holy St. Vladika Archbishop John Maximovitch and God Willing next Chinese New Yrs do a liturgy too for me in Chinese too.

      Vasiliki

       St.John thank you for your prayers and always remember me and my family when standing berfore the Holy Trinity, and inspecially the little baby Richard who is sick.

       In our Post-Christian era we especially need the intercessions of the Saints, and especially powerful are the prayers of St. John.

       We must not forget that St. John is a modern intercessor not only for Russia or America, but for Serbia, China, France, the Netherlands, and indeed the whole world.

       There has never been a time when Orthdox Christians have not been martyred for their belief in Christ. Today we especially see the persecution taking place in Kosovo, Serbia. St. John, who himself lived in Serbia, who was ordained a Reader, tonsured a monk, ordained Hierodeacon, Hieromonk, and eventually consecrated Bishop there is a most ferverent intercessor, and not only the whole Serbian land should pray to him for help, but all we Orthodox in the world should pray that St. John would intercede for, and give strength to the persecuted Serbs.

       This is a most informative and pious website, and I pray that its message, St. John's message, will reach many. May God reward all those who spread the Gospel. I myself have been working on a website dedicated to Blessed Hieromonk Seraphim (Rose) of Platina, a spiritual son of St. John. If anyone should like to visit it, the address is http://www.sisqtel.net/~williams/ It is not much, but it is my humble attempt to spread the glory of God and His saints.

      With love in Christ,
      the sinful Reader Alexis

       I have been Orthodox all of my life, but was only recently introduced to our Blessed Vladika John. His life is an inspiration to all and his holy works offer fine example for the striving Christian. Vladika John continues to help me every day of my life with all of my strugles.

       May Vladika John entreat Our Lord Jesus Christ at the heavenly altar to bless your good works and grant us all salvation.

      Reader Gregory R.Sagan. Pittsburgh, PA