Nestor Gudzovsky

Holy Hieromartyr Nestor Gudzovsky, a deacon, suffered in 1918 in the village of Kolchedan in the Kamensk district, Yekaterinburg region, together with the priest Stefan Lukanin and the deacon George Begma, all shot at Sinara station. They served at the parish church of the Meeting of the Lord in the village, and the priest and deacons refused to accept the new godless power and did not renounce God; for this they were taken to Sinara station and shot. At the beginning of our century these servants of the Church were numbered among the New Martyrs of Russia as those who suffered for the faith.

In Kolchedan there had been two churches: one in the Protection convent, the other, huge, in the centre of the village, of the Meeting of the Lord; of the second not a stone was left upon a stone, and the place is occupied by a private sawmill. According to one version, the nuns buried the slain in the churchyard. In August 2009, almost ninety years after their death, in the centre of the village, beside the monument to the dead of the war, a plain wooden cross was raised with the names of the new martyrs of Kolchedan, on the initiative of the descendants of the deacon George Begma. Hegumen Nestor of the Transfiguration monastery in Kamensk-⁠Uralsky and the priest Nicholas of the Holy Trinity cathedral served the moleben. The page gives no other details of Deacon Nestor. He is commemorated on 11 February, with the Synaxis of the Saints of Yekaterinburg, on 23 July and on 7 February, with the Synaxis of the New Martyrs and Confessors of the Russian Church (a movable day).