John Budrin

Holy Hieromartyr John Budrin, a priest, in the world Ivan Georgievich Budrin, was born in 1866. In 1886 he finished the Perm Theological Seminary, and in 1889 he was ordained priest for the church of the Protection of the Mother of God in the village of Verkhny Yar, in the Shadrinsk district of the Perm province. In 1902 he was appointed catechist for the year 1903, and in 1908 he received the kamilavka.

After the Bolsheviks seized power, the cruellest persecution fell on the dioceses of Yekaterinburg and Perm. The pastor rose up without fear against the lawlessness of the Bolsheviks and was cruelly tortured by them in the summer of 1918: before killing him, the executioners tore out the hairs of his beard and head. The Azbyka page gives two dates: 4 July 1918 in the summary and 21 June 1918 in the life written by Hegumen Damascene (Orlovsky), after a source of 1918.

The Church commemorates him on 4 July, in the new style, and on the movable day of the synaxis of the new martyrs.