The Watchful Gate

    One of the most striking events in the Orthodox Church during the last several decades has been the extraordinary response to the remarkable life of the Russian hierarch, St. John Maximovitch (1896-1966). He served the Church as bishop, first of Shanghai in the Far East, then of Western Europe, in Paris and Brussels, and finally of Western America in San Francisco. In 1994, twenty-eight years after his holy repose, he was canonized and numbered in the choir of the Saints. Pilgrims from all over the world flock to pray at his relics in San Francisco as the stream of his miracles continues to flow.

    Manifesting many forms of sanctity, St. John was at once a God-inspired theologian and a self-sacrificing pastor, a zealous missionary leader and a feeder of the poor, a severe ascetic and a loving father to orphans. Like Moses, he delivered his flock from oppression, bringing it from communist China to the free world; like the first apostles, he was given power from God to heal wounded souls and ailing bodies.

From Blessed John the Wonderworker

A Brief Description of St. John's Life

Blessed John The Wonderworker - His "Prima Vita" (first written life account)

The Price of Sanctity [local copy] - A personal narrative by one who was touched by St. John

The Dove of St. John - A typical example of how profound transformation by the grace of God also restores an unfallen relationship to nature and animals. 

Photographs of the incorrupt relics (undecayed body) of St. John

More about St. John - From the St. John the Wonderworker Orthodox Church in Atlanta

WATCH! - A Sermon of St. John