New Hieromartyr Priest Demetrius and Martyr Anatolius

Archpriest Dimitry Rozhdestvensky, born in 1868, and Anatoly Rozhdestvensky, born in 1891 and, by his patronymic, Dimitry's son, belonged to the diocese of Alma-Ata in Central Asia (today's Almaty in Kazakhstan). Both died for their faith in 1921, in the years of the Civil War and the persecution of the clergy. The Russian Church numbered them among its new martyrs in 2000.