Nicholas Onyanov

Holy Hieromartyr Nicholas Onyanov was a priest in the Perm province and was shot by the Bolsheviks in September 1918, and buried in the sand in front of the cathedral in the village of Usolye.

He was born on 27 November 1862 in the village of Usolye in the Solikamsk district of the Perm province, in the family of the peasant Michael Onyanov. Very gifted, he finished the two-⁠class school at Usolye in 1878 as first pupil and resolved to dedicate his life to the service of the Church. In 1879 he was accepted as a church servant at the church of Saint John the Baptist in the village of Zyryanskoye, Solikamsk district, where he was a diligent helper to the priest in work with the children of the parish school. In 1885 he was received into the clerical estate and named reader at the church of Saint John the Baptist in the village of Stefanovskoye, Osa district. On 14 February 1888 he was ordained deacon for the same church, and in 1893 named teacher of religion. On 11 May 1904 he was ordained priest for the church of the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul in the village of Taman, Solikamsk district, and named teacher of religion at the zemstvo primary school, and in 1908 head of the Bystra parish school. He was shot by the godless Bolsheviks in September 1918 and buried in the sand in front of the cathedral in the village of Usolye.

He is remembered on 20 June, on 14 February (a movable day) in the Synaxis of the Saints of the Perm Metropolis, and on 7 February (a movable day) in the Synaxis of the New Martyrs and Confessors, in the new style.