Martyr
Paul Bocharov
Christian martyred for the faith of Christ.
- Feast
- October 20old style November 2
- Reposed
- 193720th century
- Order
- Martyrs
Life
Holy Martyr Paul Bocharov (Pavel Maksimovich Bocharov) was born in 1882 in the village of Lubyanki in the Mikhailov district of Moscow province. On 23 January 1936 he was accused of counter-revolutionary agitation directed against collective-farm building and sentenced to six years in a labour camp. He served the sentence in Karlag, the NKVD camp in the Karaganda region of Kazakhstan.
On 19 September 1937 he was arrested again, in the camp. On 31 October 1937 the NKVD troika of the Karaganda region sentenced him to the supreme penalty, and on 2 November he was shot. The holy Martyr Paul was numbered among the saints at the Jubilee Council of Bishops of the Russian Orthodox Church in the year 2000.
He is commemorated on 2 November, the day of his killing, and on 7 February (a movable date) in the Synaxis of the New Martyrs and Confessors of the Russian Church, in the new style.
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