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New Hieromartyrs Priests Michael and John

Commemorated: February 28 (February 15, Old Style)

Life

Michael Pyataev, born in 1891, and John Kuminov, born in 1865, were priests of the Omsk diocese in western Siberia. Both died for their faith in 1930, under the Soviet persecution of the Church. The Russian Church numbered them among its new martyrs in 2000.

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