Saint John of Sonkajanranta - Holy Martyr and Confessor John of Sonkajanranta - Johannes Karhapaa - Johannes Vasilinpoika Karhapää - Handmade wood, Holy card on plaque
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Dimensions: 11 x 8 cm – 4.33”x3.14”in , 15 x 11 cm – 5.9”x4.33”in , 21 x 15 cm – 8.3”x5.9”in , 27 x 21 cm – 10.6” X8.3”in – 42 x
32 cm – 16.5“x12.60”in
Johannes Vasilinpoika Karhapää (or Ivan Vasilievich Karhapää, (13 July 1884, Sonkajanranta, Ilomantsi, Grand Duchy of Finland – 7 or 8 March 1918, Joensuu, Finland) was a Finnish Karelian teacher and an Eastern Orthodox missionary who was killed by the White Guards during the Finnish Civil War. He was canonized in 2018 as the Holy Martyr and Confessor John of Sonkajanranta.
Karhapää was born in the Sonkajanranta village at the Nissinen homestead in Ilomantsi. His parents were Vasili and Anastasia Karhapää. He had a younger brother Jaakko and two half brothers, Feodor and Ilja. He married Katri Timola and had two sons with her, Sergei, who died in infancy, and Aleksi. However, the wife died in 1910, and Karhapää married again, this time to Anna Palviainen.
During his childhood, developed a strong Orthodox faith, and he participated in the activities of the local youth association of the Saints Sergei and Herman Brotherhood. At the turn of the century, the Sortavala Evangelical Society had initiated a fanatical campaign to convert Orthodox Christians to the Lutheran faith, and as a countermeasure, the Karelian Brotherhood was founded in Olonets in 1907, at the initiative of Hieromonk, future Vicar Bishop Kiprian (Shnitnikov). The brotherhood quickly established dozens of Russian language schools in Karelia and published study materials for these schools. The schools became quite popular, partly due to social benefits offered to the student. The original purpose of the brotherhood was to engage itself in vigorous domestic mission work, but during the reign of Governor-general F. A. Seyn in 1909–17, the Karelian Brotherhood was harnessed for the purposes of Russification of Karelia.
Karhapää also got worried about the growing Lutheran mission work in his home area, and in 1906, he approached Archbishop (later patriarch of Moscow) Sergius of Finland in a letter. He asked for help in defending Orthodoxy and expressed a wish to have a school in Sonkajanranta. As a result of Karhapää's activity, an association called Orthodox Association was founded in Sonkaja
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