Thus, overshadowed by the grace of God, Father John first of all possessed exceptional faith. We are only approaching it, we only want to have it, but it does not warm the heart, does not completely occupy the mind and, as they say, "slides" into us. Father John, without any doubts or hesitations, believed in the Savior and in the Holy Gospel: faith was his native and eternal element, true knowledge, and not simple cold knowledge. He thought and spoke of everything related to the Divine, not as something extraneous, outside of his consciousness, but as of something personally experienced and seen, he spoke as an eyewitness. Father John was soaked in faith in Christ, like a sponge is soaked in water, and therefore he could boldly speak with the Apostle: "... I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. And that now I live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me" (Gal. 2:20).

A Lutheran, the widow of an Orthodox engineer from Poltava, Johanna Rudolfovna Vasilyeva, who lives in Eidkunen in Germany, after I read to her the request of the editors of Prav. Carp. Rus" about the report of miracles that occurred through the prayers of Fr. John of Kronstadt, told me the following:

"In 1902 I met on a train with an intelligent Jewish woman who was traveling from Kharkov to Kronstadt. When I asked about the reason for going there, she answered:

"I am going to thank Fr. John of Kronstadt for the healing of my daughter, who was on the verge of death. The professors sentenced her to death and refused to treat her. Then the sister of mercy, seeing my indescribable horror, gave me advice: send a telegram to Fr. John of Kronstadt – he will help. The telegram was immediately sent. A few hours later on the same day, I entered the room of the sick woman in our house and saw in extreme surprise that an Orthodox priest was standing and praying at my sick daughter's bedside. I stopped in confusion. The priest, after praying, turned and, without looking at me, silently walked through the door. His appearance was very similar to Fr. John of Kronstadt, whom I saw in the portrait of the sister of mercy. I respectfully went to see the priest off, but when I went out into the corridor, there was no one there. I asked the servants who were allowed in or out of the house. I was told that no one entered or left.

And my daughter immediately began to recover and soon, to the surprise of the doctors and everyone around her, she completely recovered.

Here, although I am a Jew, I am going to Kronstadt to serve a thanksgiving moleben, to thank Father John and to contribute my sacrifice to his charitable needs."

From the newspaper "Orthodox Carpathian Rus", No 1 of January 6, 1933.

At the beginning of 1890, a local peasant of the Ekaterinoslav province B., his daughter M., began to appear on the cheek of a kind of bloody stain, and with the passage of time it became more and more dark. They turned to doctors, etc., but all in vain. The parents of their 6-year-old daughter decided to go to Kronstadt, so that Fr. John of Kronstadt could pray with them for the healing of their daughter from an unpleasant stain on her face.

Fr. John served a moleben, washed the girl's face with holy water blessed by him, after which the parents and daughter went home, guided by the holy prayers of Fr. John. The stain on his face still remained.

After a while, upon arrival home, the girl's stain disappeared, as if it had never existed.

One morning, the girl M. told her parents that she had seen Fr. John in a dream and that he had anointed her face with something, and when she got out of bed, the spot on her face was gone. Now she is the mother of 4 adult children. Thus, through the prayers of Fr. John, God sent a miracle.

March 31, 1937