Translation from English and Finnish, comments, footnotes:
IOSIF ROHILIDIS, ATHANASIA ROHILIDIS

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"You write to me that fear dominates your mind and that you are down. You are not alone in your grief. all people grieve and worry, each to a different degree. In any case, believe in Divine Providence. Your illness and suffering are not accidental. they are permitted by God whose divine Providence for us unworthy and sinners surpasses our logic. If the Lord takes care of the fowls of the sky, how can He ever forget you, who were created in His image and likeness?"

Saint John (born Ivan Aleksejevitj Aleksejev) was the soul of the I. Monastery of Neo Valamos. He had many spiritual children outside the Monastery, mainly among the Russian emigrants. He himself was a diligent and consistent letter writer, and his letters to his spiritual children were published in Russian during his lifetime. After his death, they were translated into many languages, and among them Fr. John is revealed as an important source of Orthodox piety.
Saint John fell asleep on June 5, 1958, and was buried in the cemetery of the Monastery of Neos Valamos. His grave has become a place of pilgrimage for people mainly from Finland and Russia.