Hieromartyr
Paul Mikhaylov
A Russian priest and hieromartyr, killed for the faith in 1919.
Life
Holy Hieromartyr Paul Mikhaylov was a priest at the Holy Trinity Cathedral in Mamadysh and was killed on 13 March 1919, after torture, drowned in an ice hole of the river Vyatka.
He was born in 1866 and graduated from the teachers' seminary. He was a teacher of religion and a member and treasurer of the diocesan school council, was ordained priest in 1890 and had served at the cathedral in Mamadysh since 1898. He is the last on the list of the martyrs of the Kazan eparchy that began in 1918.
He is honoured in the Synaxis of the Saints of Kazan, on 4 October by the old calendar (17 October by the new).
Commemorated the same day October 4
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