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

The Second Miraculous Sign: The Prophetic Dream

Once, as a student of the Theological Academy, John pondered how the Lord would lead him to serve God and people in the future. With these thoughts in mind, he fell asleep and saw himself in priestly robes in the middle of a huge cathedral. He saw the interior of the cathedral very clearly, and knew for sure that it was a cathedral in the name of St. Andrew the First-Called in the city of Kronstadt.