John Rechkin

Holy Hieromartyr John Rechkin, a priest, was born in 1872 in the village of Bushevo in the Tula province. He graduated from the Tula Theological Seminary and from the Moscow Theological Academy, with the title of candidate in theology (1897). He served as a priest at the church of Saint Artemius in the village of Vysokoe, in the Kharkov region. He was arrested in 1936, on a charge of having "hidden White officers during the civil war and carried on agitation against Soviet power", and sentenced to four years of loss of freedom. He served the sentence in Karlag. In 1937 he was arrested in the camp because "being hostile to Soviet power, he carried on agitation among the prisoners, saying that soon war would be declared on the Soviet Union, the Bolsheviks would be destroyed, another government would come and the churches in Russia would be restored". He was shot on 2 November 1937. He was glorified by the Council of Bishops of the Russian Church on 20 August 2000.

The Church commemorates him on 2 November, the day of his death, in the new style, and on the movable day of the synaxis of the new martyrs.