Basil Petrov

Holy Martyr Basil Petrov, a layman, lived in the twentieth century and very little is known of him. He was born in 1882 and received the death of a martyr at the hands of the power opposed to God on 15 January 1942, at the age of sixty. He was numbered among the saints on 6 October 2006 by decision of the Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church, on the basis of documents submitted by the Moscow diocese.

He is commemorated on 15 January, on 7 February (a movable date) in the Synaxis of the New Martyrs and Confessors of the Russian Church, and on 5 September (a movable date) in the Synaxis of the Saints of Moscow, all in the new style.