Jan Charbula

Holy New Martyr Jan Charbula was born on 14 June 1876 in Lubno, in the Frýdek-⁠Místek region, and was a locksmith in Moravia. He lived in Prostějov and in Brno, where he was a member of the council of elders of the Orthodox community at the church of Saint Wenceslas.

He was arrested and tried because he had approved the attack on Reinhard Heydrich. He was executed on 2 June 1942 in Brno, at the former Kounic dormitories, where the Nazis put prisoners to death, and his body was cremated the next day at the city crematorium. Unlike most of the other Czech new martyrs, he did not die at Mauthausen. A memorial plaque with the names of the martyrs of the community, his among them, is placed on the church of Saint Wenceslas in Brno; a street in the Černovice district is named Charbulova.

The Synod of the Orthodox Church of the Czech Lands and Slovakia decided on 10 October 2019 to enter them among the saints, and the solemn glorification took place on 8 February 2020 at the Cathedral of Saints Cyril and Methodius in Prague, together with the other new martyrs of those years. They are remembered on 5 September.