St. John of Shanghai and San Francisco

Michael Maximovitch, a refugee from the Russian Revolution who became a monk in Serbia and was sent in 1934 as bishop to Shanghai. He slept, when he slept, sitting up, served the Liturgy every day, walked barefoot, and took in orphans from the streets: some three thousand five hundred passed through his home. When the communists came in 1949 he got his whole flock out to a camp on the Philippine island of Tubabao and went to Washington himself to persuade Congress to admit them. He was then archbishop in Western Europe, where he restored the veneration of Western saints from before the Schism, and from 1962 in San Francisco. He died in 1966 in Seattle. Glorified by the Church Abroad in 1994. Feast: June 19 (on the Old Calendar, 2 July).