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Hieromartyr

Basil Kashin

Cleric martyred for the faith of Christ.

Feast
December 4old style December 17
Reposed
191820th century
Order
Martyrs

Life

Holy Hieromartyr Basil Kashin, a deacon, served as a deacon at the Holy Trinity church in the village of Sylvinskoe-⁠Troitskoe, Perm district. He was shot on 17 December 1918, together with ten parishioners, in the course of mass repressions in the Perm region. He was glorified by the Jubilee Council of Bishops of the Russian Orthodox Church in the year 2000.

He is commemorated on 17 December, on 7 February (a movable date) in the Synaxis of the New Martyrs and Confessors of the Russian Church, and on 14 February (a movable date) in the Synaxis of the Saints of the Perm Metropolia, all in the new style.

Commemorated the same day December 4