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Thursday, November 12
Prophet Ahijah the Shilonite
Sinaxarion

Hieromartyr

John Zatovsky

A Ukrainian cleric, killed in 1938 during the Soviet persecution.

Feast
May 13old style May 26
Reposed
193820th century
Place
Ukrainian Orthodox Church
Order
Martyrs

Life

Holy Hieromartyr John Zatovsky was a priest of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church. He died for the faith in 1938. He was counted among the saints, as a new martyr and confessor of the Russian Church, by the Council of Bishops of the year 2000. He is commemorated on 13 May (old style; 26 May new style), in the Synaxis of the Holy New Martyrs of Cherkasy.

Commemorated the same day May 13