John Talyzin

Holy Hieromartyr John Talyzin, a priest, in the world Ivan Nikolaevich Talyzin, was born in 1888 in a priest's family. After the theological school he was ordained deacon, then priest for the church of the village of Ordino, Uglich district. In 1930 he was arrested and sentenced to three years of exile. On his return he continued to serve at the same parish.

In 1937 he was arrested again and accused of "taking part in a church-⁠monarchist group, terrorist agitation and spreading provocative and slanderous rumours". At the single interrogation Father John did not admit the invented guilt. On 2 November 1937 he was sentenced to death and on the same day received the death of martyrdom.

The Church commemorates him on 2 November, the day of his death, in the new style, on 5 June in the Synaxis of the Saints of Rostov and Yaroslavl, and on the movable day of the synaxis of the new martyrs.