New Hieromartyr Priest Nicholas

Nicholas Popov, born in 1864 in the Cossack stanitsa of Uryupinskaya on the Don, was from 1901 rector of the church of St John the Theologian at the Verkhne-Gnutov farmstead. During the Civil War, just after he had recovered from typhus, the local revolutionary committee arrested him and took him to Morozovskaya station, where the revolutionary tribunal sentenced him to death; he was killed in March 1919. He was canonized in 2006.