Nicholas Filippov

Holy Martyr Nicholas Filippov was a churchwarden in the village of Makaryevo in the Nizhny Novgorod province and was shot in November 1937.

Nicholas Fyodorovich Filippov was born in 1885 in the village of Makaryevo, in the Lyskovo district of the Nizhny Novgorod province, and spent his whole life there. When the persecution flared in 1937, he was warden of the church in his native village. There is an opinion that he had also received priestly orders. On 13 September 1937 he was arrested. He rejected all the charges, and on 11 November 1937 he was sentenced to death and shot.

He is remembered on 20 November, on 12 September (a movable day) in the Synaxis of the Saints of Nizhny Novgorod, and on 7 February (a movable day) in the Synaxis of the New Martyrs and Confessors, in the new style.