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Despite the terrible nature of the saint's martyrdom, during which he suffered both bullet wounds and burning, St. John's body was found intact in 2003.
==Links to Orthodoxy in Americaand China==
St. [[Tikhon of Moscow]], who as Patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church blessed and strengthened St. John's service in Riga and Latvia, was one of the first Orthodox bishops to do major work in North America.
One of St. John's early successors in Riga was John Garklavs (Latvian: Jānis Garklavs), who became Bishop of Riga and All Latvia in 1943 before fleeing the violence of war with his family one year later. He later served as Bishop of Detroit and Cleveland (1949-1955) and Archbishop of Chicago (1957-1978) in the American Metropolia (now the Orthodox Church in America).
In addition to those relics of St. John which remain in the keeping of the Latvian Orthodox Church, relics of the saint were also laid in the altar of the Dormition church in Beijing, China, which was consecrated on October 13, 2009 and is located on the grounds of the old [[Russian Orthodox Mission in China]].
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