MP: New Hieromartyr Priest Averky and Martyr Nikandr

Averky Severovostokov, born in 1845 into a priest's family, studied at the Ufa seminary and was ordained in 1880. For thirty-eight years he was the priest of the church of St John Chrysostom in the village of Yemashi in the Ufa province, and from 1913 he sat on the diocesan missionary committee. After the revolution he was shot by the Bolsheviks on 30 June 1918. In 2000 the Russian Church included him among its New Martyrs and Confessors.