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Prophet Ahijah the Shilonite
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Martyr

Joseph Bespalov

A martyr of the Russian Church, commemorated in the Orthodox calendar.

Feast
January 5old style January 18
Reposed
192120th century
Order
Martyrs

Life

Holy Martyr Joseph Bespalov was the warden of the church of Saint Nicholas in the Cossack village of Talgar, in the Verny district of the Semirechye region, and was shot by the Bolsheviks together with other confessors in 1921.

Joseph Yakovlevich Bespalov was the starosta, that is, the lay caretaker of the church, at the church of Saint Nicholas in the stanitsa of Talgar, Verny district. On 18 January 1921 he was shot by the Bolsheviks in the same village, together with thirty-⁠seven other Orthodox parishioners. The source says no more about them or about the events before his death.

He is commemorated on 18 January and on 7 February (a movable day), in the Synaxis of the New Martyrs and Confessors of the Russian Church, in new style.

Commemorated the same day January 5