“There was a man sent from God: the name is John” … Which of the Orthodox does not know these goddessed lines of the Apostle of Love about the greatest of the prophets of John the Baptist! And two thousand years after the Farm of the Jewish world was revealed to the forerunner of the Savior of Christ, another John – our contemporary, our Russian Prophet and the Holy – Metropolitan Ioann (Snychev), was born in the Russian land enslaved by the Bogokostyans. This is also said about him: “There was a man sent from God …” How many Russian people he testified about the light of true! How many lost souls brought to the father’s house – the Holy Orthodox Church!
Once in his youth, the Lord predicted the young man John to his path – the path of the saint, who sowing the seeds of faith and in the dark, thunderstorms for the Church, when the Satanic forces boasted to show the last priest, and in the era of swamp stagnation and restlessness, and on the crafty days of democratic permissiveness … The lord sowed the seeds of faith and piety Everywhere: among his …
Editor
Dushenova E.I.
Publisher
Tsarist business, 2015
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