HIEROMARTYR BASIL, BISHOP OF PRILUKY and Those with Him

by Dr. Vladimir Moss The Good Shepherd   Bishop Basil, in the world Basil Ivanovich Zelentsov, was born in March, 1870 in the village of Zimarovo, Ranenburg uyezd, Ryazan province, the son of a protopriest. He graduated from the faculty of law…

HIEROMARTYR PETER, ARCHBISHOP OF VORONEZH and Those with Him

Archbishop Peter was born on February 18, 1878 in the village of Veshnyaki, near Moscow, the eldest son of a Moscow protopriest, Fr. Constantine Zverev (who later became the spiritual father of Grand-Duchess Elizabeth Fyodorovna)

HIEROMARTYR NICHOLAS OF KIROVOGRAD

by Dr. Vladimir Moss      Protopriest Nicholas, of the Kirovograd diocese, was tortured to death in 1919. Once he was serving as a deacon in the St. Isaac Cathedral in St. Petersburg. At that time Tsar Nicholas was looking for a priest to…