In November 1993, a boy named Konstantin was hit at school by his classmate. The blow fell on the nerve between the sacrum and the ilium, which led to severe inflammation that threatened paralysis. On the first day, the boy could not eat or walk, he vomited, any movement caused terrible pain. The neurosurgeon who was called to the house advised me to move more (later it turned out that this advice was completely wrong) and to see the doctors a week later.

The parents of the boy who hit Constantine invited a priest from the Church of St. Job the Much-Suffering, Father Nicholas, to the house of the sick man. Constantine's own relatives were then of little faith and non-church people, but nevertheless agreed that Father Nicholas should consecrate their son. After the sacrament of unction, Kostya ate for the first time in two days and even got up, but after a while he had a fever. Then the priest gave his blessing to call an ambulance. The boy was put in intensive care with severe inflammation, which threatened blood poisoning. For a week, he was under an IV, his blood was cleansed twice, he received a blood transfusion, but nothing helped. Finally, they wanted to make a puncture at the site of the contusion. Then Constantine's parents called Father Nicholas in order to take a blessing for a puncture, but he sent them to the elderess Lyubushka in Susanino (near St. Petersburg).

Выслушав родителей больного, блаженная старица сказала: «Мальчик хороший, жить будет, мажь маслицем», а затем неожиданно выкрикнула им вслед: «Резать не давай, забери из больницы и иди к Иоанну, мы с ним вместе молиться будем». Веря в заступничество отца Иоанна, они впервые пришли в Иоанновский монастырь, где монахини посоветовали им читать Акафист батюшке Иоанну в течение 40 дней, что и было исполнено, а мать ребенка, кроме того, читала еще и Акафист Иверской иконе Божией Матери. После посещения усыпальницы батюшки Иоанна мальчика перевели из реанимации в отделение, где он находился еще долгое время. Его приходилось учить садиться, ходить. Уповая более на помощь Божию, нежели человеческую, и памятуя слова блаженной Любушки, родители отказались от предложенной врачами операции, но все время мазали мальчика маслицем от батюшки Иоанна, молились за него, пригласили священника, который причастил ребенка в больнице (за что получили выговор от врачей). Через некоторое время первый диагноз «остеомиелит» был снят, и врачи при осмотре обнаружили лишь «последствия после ушиба».

Сейчас Костя живой, подвижный мальчик. Свое письменное свидетельство родители чудесно исцеленного отрока завершают такими проникновенными словами: «Наш мальчик, слава Богу, жив и здоров. Но, самое главное, его страданиями, его болью мы обрели веру в Бога. Мы все стали исцеляться душой – вся наша семья. Теперь у нас есть наш приход, наш духовный наставник. Необыкновенно добрые люди стали окружать нас. Вот так, благодаря батюшке Иоанну, мы исцеляемся».

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On August 14, 1996, I was healed of terrible pain and colic in my right kidney. On August 10, I was taken by ambulance to the hospital right from work. It was Saturday, and for two days before the doctor came, I endured attacks of pain. On August 12, the doctor, having examined me, appointed an examination. The next day, I turned to Father John of Kronstadt for prayerful help through my wife Nina. She brought oil from the lamp in the burial vault of the priest, and on August 14, at 3 p.m., we prayed and anointed the sore spot. In an instant, the pain was gone, and in two hours very small stones came out, easily and simply. I must say that for two days, on August 12 and 13, I drank flaxseed every two hours, but the attacks, however, recurred more and more often. And when I touched the oil from Father John's lamp, the pain disappeared immediately!

Servant of God Eugene

In the autumn of 1994, a misfortune happened to Nikolai Ivanovich, who worked in one of the "closed" enterprises. During the tests, a rocket exploded, several people were injured. Nikolai Ivanovich received a severe burn - 53% of the surface of the body, even the oral cavity was burned. No one imagined that with such injuries a person could stay alive. Meanwhile, his relative (the mother of his son-in-law), Evgenia Vasilievna, came to the Ioannovsky Monastery and with tears told about this grief. The nuns said that she needed to serve a moleben to St. John of Kronstadt, brought oil from his tomb, and, giving advice to firmly hope for the help of the priest, promised to pray for the sick man themselves. Nikolai Ivanovich began to be lubricated with healing oil. Few believed in his recovery: after all, he was "all like a firebrand". However, a miracle happened: a few months later, Nikolai Ivanovich was discharged from the hospital healthy and continues to work. Evgenia Vasilievna came to the monastery to tell about this mercy of God and to thank God and His saint John for the healing of her kinsman.

Based on materials from the Internet site "Circle of Communication and Creativity for the Orthodox"