Venerable Martyr Euthymius

Euphimy (Lyubovichev, 1875–1931) was born in the village of Buda Monastyrskaya in the Kaluga region. After military service he came to the Optina Hermitage in 1902 and became the cell attendant of the elder Anatoly (Potapov); he was admitted to the brotherhood in 1910. When the monastery was closed, he worked in the museum set up in its grounds, and in 1930 he was ordained a hieromonk, a monk-priest, and served in village churches near Spas-Demensk.

In March 1931 he was arrested for remarks against collective farming and was convicted of anti-Soviet agitation. He fell ill with tuberculosis in prison and died on 19 July 1931. The Russian Church canonized him among the New Martyrs and Confessors in 2005.