Daniel Dymov

Holy Hieromartyr Daniel Dymov was a priest in the village of Verkhny Uslon, near Kazan, and died a martyr in the autumn of 1918.

He was born in 1884 in Kazan, in a poor family of townspeople, and finished a teachers' school. From 1901 to 1904 he was a teacher at the village school of Verkhny Uslon, then a church reader and deacon at the Cathedral of Holy Wisdom in Sviyazhsk. He became a deacon at the church of Saint Nicholas in Verkhny Uslon, and in 1917 the parish elected him priest.

In September 1918 he was arrested and held for a month by the Cheka, from 24 September to 24 October. The arrest papers showed that there was no charge against him, but because he was a priest they did not dare to release him. The peasants of Verkhny Uslon sent the Cheka the resolution of the village assembly asking that he be freed. In October he was put in the same cell as Father Philaret Velikanov, steward of the Kazan Theological Academy, and two days after Latsis signed the sentence both were shot. The sources differ on the day: the end of October or 11 November 1918.

He is honoured in the Synaxis of the Saints of Kazan, on 4 October by the old calendar (17 October by the new).