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Simple, unpolished, and at the same time burning with passionate, self-sacrificing pastoral zeal, Fr. John stood amidst the great "peasant priests" who have kept the spirit of Holy Orthodoxy alive throughout the centuries. While others have at times reduced Orthodoxy to an intellectual or formal exercise, such priests have demonstrated that Orthodoxy is in fact ''life'' - a balm to the wounds of the poor, the suffering, the sinful. To use an old Russian expression, Fr. John was truly a "priest of the people."<ref>[http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4261906/Fr.%20John%20Karastamatis-1.pdf Passion-Bearer John of Santa Cruz: A Victim of the Lost Sheep He Tried to Save]. The Orthodox Word. p.6.</ref><ref group="note">''"The good shepherd gives his life for the sheep."'' (John 10:11).</ref>

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