Orthodox · 20th century
New Hieromartyrs Priests Paul and John, and Martyrs Peter, Nicholas, Auxentius, Sergius, and Anastasia
Commemorated: May 10 (April 27, Old Style)
Life
In March 1922 the state seized church valuables under a decree of 26 February. In Shuya, Vladimir province, believers gathered at the Resurrection Cathedral on 15 March; the crowd was dispersed with whips and then gunfire, and four were killed: Nicholas Malkov, Anastasia, Auxentius Kalashnikov and Sergius Methodiev.
The protopriest Paul Svetozarov, rector of the cathedral, was arrested on 17 March, and the priest John Rozhdestvensky of the Cross church in Palekh on 25 March, accused of reading Patriarch Tikhon's message. A visiting session of the Supreme Revolutionary Tribunal sentenced them and the layman Peter Yazykov to death on 25 April, and they were shot on 10 May 1922.
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