A RUSSIAN MIRACLEWORKER.

Hot Lakes Chronicle, Volume 2, Issue 118, 6 March 1895, Page 4

A RUSSIAN MIRACLEWORKER.

Father John is believed bv religious Russians to be able to -perform miracles. He is arch-priest at Crousfadt, and his house is treated as a shrine by the pilgrims, who come to see him frotii all narts of the Empire' (says the Graphic). Mis portraits a'id busts are sold overywlu re, and when he makes his appearance in the streets people kneel down before him. They sav thai bin benediction protects them from sickness. There i« not a ri-'h f-mily in the counTy which has t • t i-.t him in do j oraio ca-i-s. lie ■ i■ v ■, d. ir.a fit; i ..bo I' i t aI: o:e with hi~ patient, and prays till euro has been obtained. Ho has boon known t'i remain kme-ii- g for twelve hours by the sidi; of the invalid, and numerous ensf s of cure are said to have been neempished by lis intervention. Under such circumstances, it is no wonder that lie should he legarded by the populace as a paint. When he was called in to the dying Czar at Jjivadia great emotir.n was aroused, for Father John is onlv applied to in critical cases when human science has done all it can. He receives large sums of money from persons who recover after bin intervention, which lie spends in building reluges for workpeople out of employment.