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Hieromartyr

Arcadius Reshetnikov

A Russian priest who died a martyr for his faith in Christ during the communist persecution.

Feast
December 28old style January 10
Reposed
191920th century
Order
Martyrs

Life

Holy Hieromartyr Arcadius Reshetnikov was a deacon and served in the village of Yurly in the Cherdyn district of the Perm province. He received the crown of martyrdom at the beginning of 1919, when the Bolsheviks shot him on 10 January, after cruel tortures and mockery.

He is commemorated on 10 January, the day of his witness, on 7 February, in the Synaxis of the New Martyrs and Confessors of the Russian Church, and on 14 February, in the Synaxis of the Saints of the Perm Metropolis.

Commemorated the same day December 28