A bishop who did not wear boots. Litvyak Elena V.

The book “Bishop who did not wear boots” tells about the amazing holy of the 20th century-the Holy John of Shanghai and San Francisian. The life path of the Lord was saturated with events, and the brightest of them formed the basis of this book: a meeting in his youth with the Grand Duke Konstantin Konstantinovich Romanov, a ministry in Chinese Shanghai, where Father John founded a children's shelter, emigration to the Philippine Island of Tubabao, where together with Russians He spent three years, ministry in Europe and America, where the Russian gymnasium was founded and the largest temple of the Russian Orthodox Church was founded by his labors. Vladyka John traveled half the world, and everywhere he was distinguished by kindness and love for people. The author Elena Litvyak invites readers to speculate about what they are, our saints, and what makes them close to people and God. The book is based on the memoirs of contemporaries of Vladyka John and will be interesting to a wide circle of readers.