New Martyr
Andrei Punsun
An Orthodox believer honored as a new martyr, who died in 1955.
Life
Holy New Martyr Andrei Punsun was an Orthodox layman of Estonia and is counted among the faithful canonized in 2019 as martyrs of the Soviet persecution.
The Holy Synod of the Ecumenical Patriarchate decided in March 2019, on the proposal of the Orthodox Church of Estonia, to enter among the saints those who died as martyrs or confessors of the faith between 1944 and 1955, in the first years of Soviet rule after the war: Bishop Peter of Tartu and Pechory and a number of clergy and laity. They are remembered on 20 August.
The sources consulted do not keep the story of his life.
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