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→St. John of Shanghai and San Franciso: added the historical fact that the Russian Orthodox Church did not preach Orthodoxy to the native Filipinos. No Filipino was Baptized nor Chrismated.
===St. John of Shanghai and San Franciso===
In 1949, 5,500 Russian Orthodox from China, including then-[[Archbishop]] [[John Maximovitch]], was relocated to Tubabao in the south central Philippines by the International Refugee Organization and with the permission of the newly independent Republic of the Philippines. Abp. John Maximovitch then established a wooden church, orphanage, and other buildings in Tubabao for the refugees. Until the present time, older Filipinos still remember the holy man, and he is revered even by non-Orthodox in the south central Philippines. Unfortunately, Arbp. Maximovitch did not receive any Filipino convert in the Orthodox Church.
Tubabao, however, was (and still is) an underdeveloped island which is humid, prone to typhoons, and at times inaccessible due to the ocean conditions. When a Russian commented on their fear that a typhoon would destroy their camp to local Filipinos, they replied that there was nothing to worry about because “your holy man blesses your camp from four directions every night.” There were no typhoons or floods while Abp. John was there.
