John Znamensky

Holy Hieromartyr John Znamensky, a priest, was born on 8 March 1868 in the village of Vladykino, Saint Petersburg district, in the family of the priest Basil Znamensky. In 1882 he finished the theological school at Belozersk of the Novgorod diocese, and in 1887 was named psalmist at the church of the Holy Trinity in the village of Varnakushki, of the same diocese. In 1898 he moved to the Turkestan diocese and was named to the church of the Protection in the village of Pokrovka, Przhevalsk district. In 1902 he was moved to the church of Saint George in the village of Tokmak, Pishpek district.

In 1903 he was ordained priest for the church in the village of Georgievka, Pishpek district, and named teacher of religion at the parish school. A year later he was moved to the church of the Archangel Michael in the stanitsa of Golubevskaya, Dzharkent district, again as teacher of religion, and in 1906 returned to the village of Georgievka. The priest John Znamensky was shot by the godless Bolsheviks in 1923 in the town of Taldy-⁠Kurgan and buried in an unknown grave.

The Church commemorates him on 21 March, the day of his death, in the new style, on 11 July in the Synaxis of the Saints of Vologda, on 8 September in the Synaxis of the Saints of Central Asia, and on the movable day of the synaxis of the new martyrs.