Paul Chernyshev

Holy Hieromartyr Paul Chernyshev, a priest, was born in 1861 and served for twenty-⁠eight years as a priest in the settlement of Novo-⁠Utkinsky Zavod in Perm province. For his freedom from the love of money he was loved and respected by his parishioners.

In July 1918, under the pretext of mobilization for trench work, Father Paul was taken by force from his village, with his son and parishioners, toward the village of Aramil. Near Aramil they were made to dig a pit and then fire was opened on them. Father Paul was killed outright, by a shot in the back, and four more were killed; the others ran, and some were overtaken and killed with bayonets and rifle butts. Two, among them the saint's son, managed to escape.

Saint Paul is commemorated on 20 July, on 7 February (a movable date) in the Synaxis of the New Martyrs and Confessors of the Russian Church and on 11 February in the Synaxis of the Saints of Yekaterinburg, in the new style.