John of Tobolsk, saint

John of Tobolsk was born as Iwan Maksymowicz in Nie?yn, in the Czernihow Voivodeship of the Polish?Lithuanian Commonwealth. He was the only one of the seven sons of Maksym Wasylkowski Maksymowicz to enter the service of the Eastern Orthodox Church, in which he was appointed manager of the Kiev Pechersk Lavra by 1678.