the holy new martyrs of eastern russia - Coptic Orthodox teaching

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After the murder, the executioners sent one of the local inhabitants to
Bortsurman to tell the villagers to come and take the bodies or bury them there
- they all had to be buried by the evening. The peasants arrived on carts and
took them all, leaving a cross with an inscription at the site of the martyrdom.
Fr. Michael was buried in the middle of his parishioners Nicholas
Migunov, Nicholas Nebasov, another Nicholas Migunov and a servant of
God whose name is unknown.
Fr. Michael's house was sacked by the executioners. Soon after his martyric
death his matushka wrote to the authorities in Moscow, asking why they had
killed her husband. The reply was that her husband had suffered innocently...
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Protopriest John Ilyinsky was born in 1846, and served in the village of
Sheremetyevo-Nikolskoye, Simbirsk province. There in 1918 he was arrested,
sentenced to death and shot for “counter-revolution”. All his property was
confiscated or trashed, In 1919 the Bolsheviks recognized that there had been
not enough evidence to accuse him of counter-revolution, so they returned the
confiscated property to his family.
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Priest Peter Petrovich Lvov was a member of the Saratov Diocesan Council.
On October 6, 1918 he was condemned by the Saratov revolutionary tribunal
for “passive participation in counter-revolutionary activities” and condemned
to ten years’ conditional imprisonment. Nothing more is known about him.
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Priest Simeon Ionin served in the city of Troitsk, Orenburg diocese. He
was shot in Kustanai in 1918.
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Protopriest Michael Gromoglasov was the superior of the cathedral in
Verkhne-Uralsk, Orenburg province. He was arrested before Pascha in 1918,
having been denounced by the second priest of the cathedral, Telegin. In
prison an escort stabbed him with a bayonet. He was released, recovered from
his injuries and was arrested again. On the night of June 17, seventeen people
in all, including eleven citizens and six Cossacks, were taken out of prison on
the pretext of being taken to Ufa. Their hands and legs were bound, and they
were taken on carts in the direction of Tirlyany. At the sixteenth kilometre
they were ordered to dig their own graves. Fr. Michael asked permission to
pray and fell on his knees. Having prayed, he got up and said: “I’m ready.”
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