the holy new martyrs of eastern russia - Coptic Orthodox teaching

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Priest Nicholas Alexandrovich Protasov was serving in the prison church
in Kuznetsk, Penza province. In 1919 he was shot together with other priests
of the parishes of Kuznetsk.
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Priest Alexander Evlampievich Lyubimov was the father-in-law of
Archbishop Augustine (Belyaev). He was serving in Penza diocese. During
the persecutions against the Church at the beginning of the 1920s he was
arrested and died in exile.
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Priest Nicholas Nekrasov was serving in the village of Bolshie Izbischi,
Lebedyan region, Ryazan (now Lipetsk) province. In 1921 he was killed in his
own house.
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Priest Vladimir Vladimirov was serving in Lebedyan, Ryazan (now
Lipetsk) province. In 1922 he was shot, supposedly for his links with the
Whites. He had been serving for less than a year, had been married for less
than a year, and after his death his daughter was born.
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In 1922, 41 clergy of various ranks were killed in Tambov province in
connection with the requisitioning of church valuables.
The yedinverchesky Priest Yerokhin was put on trial together with S.A.
Nikitov, the warden of the church in the village of Lakhmytovka,
Kirsanovsky uyezd, Tambov province for “hiding church valuables”. As it
turned out, there was nothing to hide because the church was of the poorest.
So they were acquitted. Nothing more is known about him.
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In Penza region there is a station which bears the name of Zametchina. Not
far away there used to be a monastery, of which only the foundations and
some stones remain. After the revolution forty monks were buried alive next
to the river. After a time forty small springs began to flow at the place of their
martyrdom. Their water is considered holy. At the end of June, on the day of
the commemoration of these forty martyrs, many people come to this spot to
venerate their memory. They say that on this day all forty springs burn with a
wonderful fire...
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