Joseph Bon

Holy Martyr Joseph Bon served the Orthodox Church in Ukraine as a church choir director and received the crown of martyrdom in 1938, during the Soviet persecution of the Church.

The sources consulted give no details of his birth, family or ministry; only the year of his death and his place in the synaxis are recorded.

He is commemorated in the Synaxis of the New Martyrs of Cherkasy, on 13 May by the old calendar (26 May by the new). The Synaxis was glorified in 1998 by the Holy Synod of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, which numbered among the saints one hundred and four clergy and laypeople of the Cherkasy region who confessed Christ in the years of persecution, above all 1937 and 1938. The list of the New Martyrs and Confessors of the Russian Church shows him as glorified earlier and then canonized by the Council of Bishops in 2000.