Благодатная сила св.воды

“In January 1912, when I was planning to leave St. Petersburg with my whole family for the city of Fatezh, Kursk province, for the funeral of my father, Archpriest Pvala Grigoryevich Petin, I took with me a small bottle of holy water, blessed by the priest, Father John, when he was alive in my house. Upon arrival in Fatezh, I found my father lying on the table already dressed, so that the positioning in the coffin took place in front of me. At the same time, all those present were very concerned about the decomposition of the dead man’s body that had already begun, and undoubted signs of this decomposition, in addition to the cadaverous smell, were visible around the table, on the floor strewn with sand. When the body was placed in the coffin, my wife expressed a desire for the coffin to be sprinkled with holy water, brought from St. Petersburg from Father Father John. The local priest willingly fulfilled this wish. When the evening funeral service ended, and then the parastasis served in the house, everyone who came to say goodbye to the deceased no longer heard the corpse smell and did not notice any signs of further decomposition in the coffin. So the night passed, the next day came, January 28, when the funeral service and burial of my father took place, but during all this time, up to and including the lowering of the coffin into the grave, none of the several hundred who were present in the Fatezh Cathedral Church and said goodbye to their deceased shepherd also noticed signs of decomposition. The described fact, which was witnessed by hundreds of people, serves as one of the numerous proofs of the power of faith and prayers in God of the late Father John of Kronstadt. N. Petin." St. Petersburg, Starorusskaya st., 14