Holy New Hieromartyr Priest Eustathius

Eustathius Malakhovsky was born on 29 March 1880 into the family of a priest of the Polotsk diocese. In 1904 he went to serve in the Turkestan diocese, where he was ordained deacon and priest in 1905. He served in Vernyi, in the Lepsinsk district and in Przhevalsk, and from 1914 was rector of the Pokrovskoye church on the southern shore of Lake Issyk-Kul.

During the uprising of 1916 he organized the defence of the village and led the survivors out to Przhevalsk. He was killed by Bolsheviks during the Easter procession on 5 May 1918 (22 April by the church calendar). He is remembered as a hieromartyr among the New Martyrs and Confessors of the Russian Church.