Peter Bordan

Holy Martyr Peter Bordan (Pyotr Vasilievich Bordan) was born in 1895 in the village of Slobodzeya in Kherson province, in a peasant family. Between 1915 and 1917 he served in the tsarist army. Of his life after that nothing is known, but on 4 February 1936 he was arrested for refusing to join the collective farm. He was sentenced to three years in a camp and sent to serve the term in the Ortau section of Karlag, in the Karaganda region of Kazakhstan.

On 22 August 1937 the martyrs Peter Bordan and Dimitry Mikhailovich Morozov, who had openly confessed their faith in the camp, were arrested. On 31 August 1937 the special NKVD troika of the Karaganda region sentenced them to death and on 3 September they were shot. They were numbered among the saints by the Jubilee Council of Bishops of the Russian Orthodox Church in the year 2000. Saint Peter is commemorated on 8 September and on 7 February (a movable date) in the Synaxis of the New Martyrs and Confessors of the Russian Church, in the new style.