John Rodionov

Holy Hieromartyr John Rodionov, a priest, was born in 1881 in the village of Ostankino, Tim district, Kursk province. He had higher education in history. He served in the North Caucasus Region, in the town of Yessentuki. He was arrested in 1933 and sentenced to eight years of loss of freedom. He served the sentence in Karlag. In 1937 he was arrested in the camp because he "carried on counterrevolutionary agitation among the prisoners, aimed at discrediting the policy of the Soviet government, and openly stated his convictions. He said that deliverance from Soviet power would come from Hitler." 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.