Bessarion

Holy Deacon-⁠Martyr Bessarion (Kukhianidze) was a protodeacon in Georgia and was killed in 1924 together with Metropolitan Nazar of Kutaisi and three other clergy. After the August uprising of 1924 they were arrested by night, at Simoneti, where they were guests after the consecration of a church in the village of Rodinauli, bound and beaten with rifle butts, then, without trial, shot by a "special troika" in the Safichkhia forest, near Kutaisi. They are commemorated on 14 August, old style (27 August, new style). The Church of Georgia canonized them in 1994.