Yea, sacred are you, O Russia.
The ancient writer was correct who said that you are the Third Rome, and there will be no fourth.
You have surpassed the ancient Rome by the multitude of exploits of your martyrs, you have surpassed also the Rome which baptized you [Constantinople] by your standing in Orthodoxy, and you will remain unsurpassed to the end of the world.
Only the land which was sanctified by the sufferings and the earthly life of the God-man is holier than you in the eyes of Orthodox Christians.
St. John of Shanghai and San Francisco, the Wonderworker.
Shanghai, 1938, and Report to the All-Diaspora Sobor, 1938