Акафист Святителю Иоанну Шанхайскому

Праздничный хор храма св. Антипы на Колымажном дворе (г. Москва). Духовенство: ключарь кафедрального собора Всех скорбящих Радости в г. Сан-Франциско протоиерей Петр Перекрестов и клирик храма св. Николая в Кузнецкой слободе г. Москвы диакон Алексей Зайцев. The future St. John was born on June 4, 1896, in the southern Russian village (current day Ukraine) of Adamovka in Kharkiv province to pious aristocrats, Boris and Glafira Maximovitch. He was given the baptismal name of Michael, after the Holy Archangel Michael. In his youth, Michael was sickly and had a poor appetite, but he displayed an intense religious interest. He was educated at the Poltava Military School (1907-14), Kharkiv Imperial University, from which he received a law degree (in 1918), and the University of Belgrade (where he completed his theological education in 1925). He and his family fled their country as the Bolshevik revolutio