New Hieromartyr Priest Nicholas

Nicholas Pokrovsky, born in 1864 to a priest's family, studied at the Simbirsk seminary, served for some thirteen years at the Kashpir convent and from 1908 was rector of the church in the village of Goryushki in the Simbirsk province. During the peasant uprising known as the Chapan War, Red Army soldiers arrested him on the night of 18 March 1919, and the local revolutionary committee had him shot for a "counter-revolutionary" sermon to the rebels. He was canonized in 2006.