John Lazarev

Holy Hieromartyr John Lazarev, a protopresbyter, in the world John Mikhailovich Lazarev, was born in 1876 in the village of Kurmysh, Nizhny Novgorod province. He served at the church of the Dormition of the Mother of God in Nizhny Novgorod. In August 1937 he was arrested, and on 21 September the sentence was read: the supreme penalty. Soon he was shot. He was glorified among the saints at the jubilee Council of Bishops of the Russian Church in the year 2000. The Azbyka page gives no further details.

The Church commemorates him on 4 October, in the new style, on 12 September (a movable day) in the Synaxis of the Saints of Nizhny Novgorod, and on the movable day of the synaxis of the new martyrs.