Hieromartyr
Nicholas Figurov
Cleric martyred for the faith of Christ.
- Feast
- October 20old style November 2
- Reposed
- 193720th century
- Order
- Martyrs
Life
Holy Hieromartyr Nicholas Figurov was a priest in the Nizhny Novgorod province and was shot in a camp in Kazakhstan on 2 November 1937.
He was born in 1886 in the village of Shershevskoye in the Perevoz district of the Nizhny Novgorod province, and served as a priest in his native village. In 1928 he was arrested and sent into exile at Buzuluk. In 1935 he was sentenced for "anti-Soviet propaganda" to three years in a labour camp and was sent to Karlag, in the Karaganda region of Kazakhstan. In 1937 he was arrested in the camp "for refusing to work, taking part in religious gatherings and agitation among the people". He was shot on 2 November 1937. He was canonised on 20 August 2000 by the Council of Bishops of the Russian Orthodox Church.
He is remembered on 2 November and on 7 February (a movable day) in the Synaxis of the New Martyrs and Confessors, in the new style.
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