Basil Militsyn

Holy Hieromartyr Basil Militsyn, a priest, by his full name Basil Stepanovich Militsyn, was born in 1861 in Orenburg province. After the district school in Kamyshlov he was ordained deacon in 1887 and served at the church in Voskresenskaya Sloboda, Chelyabinsk district. On 8 February 1894 he was moved to the Transfiguration cathedral in Shadrinsk. In 1897 he was ordained priest and served at the Transfiguration church of the Verkhne-⁠Ufaleisky works in the Ekaterinburg diocese, then at the church in the village of Kungurskoe. On 9 August 1907 he was appointed to the church of the Entry into Jerusalem at the Nizhny Tagil works, Verkhoturye district, and on 7 October 1909 to the church of Saint Nicholas in the village of Verkh-⁠Klyuchevskoe, Kamyshlov district. In 1915 he served at the Transfiguration church in the village of Alexeevskoe, in the same district.

He was killed by the godless Bolsheviks on 25 June 1918 in Kamyshlov, in the course of mass repressions against the clergy. He is commemorated on 8 July, on 7 February (a movable date) in the Synaxis of the New Martyrs and Confessors of the Russian Church, and on 11 February in the Synaxis of the Saints of Ekaterinburg, all in the new style.