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Show FATHER JOHN OF CRONSTADT IS DEAD v HE HAD HOSTS OF FOLLOWERS AND THE CZAR FOR A FRIEND. . Later Year Were Clouded by Sect of ' Johnites, Which Was Exploited fyt Financial AdvantSgefby Leaders. St. Petersburg, Jan 2. Father John of Cronstadt, Is dead. The noted priest for some time had been suffering suffer-ing from chronic dropsy and Intestinal i complaints and the end, though sudden, , was not unexpected. Father John was born Nov. 30, 1829. Aa a priest of tho Andrew Church at Cronstadt, his zeal j and devotion drew about him hosts ol i followers and attracted tho attention j of the emperor, who constantly bo-, bo-, friended him. A pilgrimage of the pres-I pres-I ent empress to tho shrine of St. Ser-aphln, Ser-aphln, which among pious Russians was believed to have been responslblo for the birth of the desired heir to tho throne, was undertaken on Fat.ier John's advice. The late years ot Father John's life wero clouded by the lll reputo of the sect of Jolmltes, which was exploited "by an unscrupulous and Immoral group of men and women tr their great financial advantage. Th'i priest's eye6 were opened to this only last summer, Wnen he anathematized , the false loaders. |