George Begma

Holy Hieromartyr George Begma, a deacon, in the world George Platonovich Begma, was born in 1875 and received the crown of martyrdom on 23 July 1918, killed by soldiers of the Red Army.

After finishing church school, from 1905 he served as psalm reader, and after 1915 as deacon of the church of the Meeting of the Lord in the village of Kolchedanskoe, Kamyshlov district, Perm province. In July 1918, together with the holy hieromartyrs the priest Stephen Lukanin and the deacon Nestor Gudzovsky, he was seized by soldiers of the Red Army and taken to the Sinarskaya station of the Perm railway, today within the bounds of the city of Kamensk-⁠Uralsky in the Sverdlovsk region, where he was killed on 23 July. He was numbered among the saints by decision of the Holy Synod of 17 July 2002. He is commemorated, according to the Azbyka page, on 11 February and on 23 July.