Peter Grishin

Holy Martyr Peter Grishin was born in 1870 and lived in the Belkovo district of the Ryazan region. On 6 November 1937 he was arrested, in a group of twenty-⁠seven people, and held first in Kasimov, then all the accused were taken to Ryazan for the pronouncement and carrying out of the sentence. He went into the group case of the counter-⁠revolutionary insurgent organization of churchmen in the Belkovo (Kasimov) district, 1937.

On 6 December 1937 the NKVD troika of the Ryazan region charged him, under articles 58-8, 58-10 and 58-11, with active participation in a counter-⁠revolutionary insurgent and terrorist organization, with defeatist agitation among the people and with terrorist moods. Of the twenty-⁠seven, twenty-⁠three, Peter among them, were sentenced to the supreme penalty and shot.

Saint Peter is commemorated on 23 December, on 7 February (a movable date) in the Synaxis of the New Martyrs and Confessors of the Russian Church and on 23 June in the Synaxis of the Saints of Ryazan, in the new style.