Hieromartyrs Platon, Bishop of Reval, and with him Michael and Nicholas, Priests

Platon (Kulbusch), born in 1869 in the Pernov (Pärnu) district of Estonia into a psalm-reader's family, graduated from the St Petersburg Theological Academy and at the end of 1917 became bishop of Reval for the Orthodox of Estonia. In early 1918 he settled in Yuryev (Tartu). After the Red Army took the town in December 1918 he was arrested, and on 14 January 1919 he was shot together with two priests of the town: Michael Bleive, rector of the Dormition Cathedral, who had tried to obtain his release, and the archpriest Nicholas Bezhanitsky. They were canonized in 2000.