St. John of Shanghai and Commemoration of the Patriarch of Moscow
July 31
On that day in 1945, St. John of Shanghai and San Francisco wrote to his ruling hierarch, Archbishop Viktor (Sviatin) of Peking, about commemorating Patriarch Alexei of Russia.
St. John with (left to right) Abbess Elisabeth (Ampenoff) of Gornensky convent in Palestine, later of the Annunciation Convent in London, Nun Magadline (Grabbe), later Abbess of …
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