This book is dedicated to a man who went down in history as a great saint of the twentieth century, a beacon who saved the souls and bodies of millions of Russian emigrants thrown out of the Motherland by the revolution and scattered throughout the world. The name of this man is St. John, Archbishop of Shanghai and San Francisco. He is also rightfully called a miracle worker, a beacon of the Russian diaspora, who saved both ordinary people and our great philosophers, writers, musicians - everyone who believed that Vladika John became the chosen one of God, who gave him the gift of miracles. The book is a story about Saint John, based on real historical facts, and a documentary biography of the saint with an akathist. The publication is approved for distribution by the Publishing Council of the Russian Orthodox Church.