Feast of St. John Maksimovic Trikorfo Earth [photos]

With particular splendour was celebrated on 1 and 2 July 2016, the memory of Ag. John Maksimovic in the women’s…
Holy Monastery of Saints Nektarios and Fanourios Τρικόρφου of Fokida.
In the sequence of Vespers presided over the Founder and Spiritual of the Holy Monastery of Elder Nektarios Μουλατσιώτης πλαισιούμενος from Ιερομονάχους.
On the day of the feast officiated by the Metropolitan of Spain and Portugal, and Πολύκαρπος πλαισιούμενος by priests of I. Metropolis. The little speech his Eminence mr. Πολύκαρπος mentioned to St. John the Maksimovic and the spiritual connection of the Saint with the Metropolis of Spain and Portugal, where Saint John the Maksimovic ordained a priest in Spain for the needs of the church of Spain. It was also mentioned in the Church that it is the only hospital where it helps the person mentally, spiritually and physically, and that it continues to fulfil the purpose of to the extent that even today it still showcases saints.
The faithful who attended yesterday and today to honor St. John, had the honor to worship the sister too (which φυλάσσετται the entire Monastery), as well as a piece of the Relic and other sacred relics of the Saint.
St. John Maksimovic
The saint and theophoros fathers John Maksimovic, was born in the year 1896, in the small town of Χαρκώβου of Ukraine. The baptismal name he received was Michael. From his childhood he had fallen in love with Christ, and studied incessantly the lives of the Saints of the Orthodox faith. The weak in nature but strong in faith Michael, increase in virtue and in wisdom, and in all, it was now clear that “the grace of God not on him”.
In the revolution of Russia, he emigrated with his family to Belgrade where he studied at the University of Theology and received the Degree of Theologos in the year 1925. The Holy Monastery of Μίλκοβ κάρηκε a monk, taking the name John. In 1926 he was ordained a hieromonk. At the same time he was appointed professor and between the years 1927 to 1934 he taught in the Seminary of the city of Monastir (Βιτώλης), the temples of which was the Mystery of the Eucharist in the Greek language for the sake of the Greeks who lived there.
The year 1934 προχειρίστηκε Bishop of Shanghai, and began his missionary activity in Asia, combining a retreat, ascetic treatment, ποιμασία divine and charity is unique. After the migration of his flock in America due to the change of the political scene in China, the wonderful John was placed in Europe and specifically in Paris to διακονήσει them Russians of the diaspora. The year 1962 is installed in the San Francisco of America to bring about peace in the there divided Orthodox Russian community. The peacemaker holy and humble bishop John in the last years of ισάγγελης on earth his life he drank the cup of slander, to enjoy the mansions of the divine glory “as δεδιωγμένος sake of righteousness”.
He slept the sleep of the just on 2 July (19 June, p.the.) in the year 1966 and was buried in the basement of the Cathedral of San Francisco. The relic has been shown a source that I am going healing. The translation of the sacred flock was found incorruptible and fragrant in order to declare to all the glory with which he honored God in eternal bliss.













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