Nicholas of Iskrivka

Holy Hieromartyr Nicholas of Iskrivka was a priest in the village of Iskrivka, in Ukraine, killed by Red Army soldiers on 2 October 1919. The village church had been built on the initiative and at the expense of Tsar Nicholas II.

Father Nicholas was known as a man of prayer, endowed with the gifts of foresight and healing. He foretold the persecutions to come and his own martyrdom. The soldiers threw him from the bell tower and then shot him. His body was moved three times, and at the last burial it was found incorrupt.

He was canonized on 17 July 2001 by decision of the Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church. His relics were found and now rest in the Church of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross in Iskrivka. He is commemorated on 2 October, and in the Synaxis of the New Martyrs and Confessors of the Russian Church on 7 February (movable).