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Prophet Ahijah the Shilonite
Sinaxarion

Hieromartyr

Peter Kosmodamiansky

A hieromartyr of the Moscow eparchy who gave his life for Christ in 1938.

Feast
March 9old style March 22
Reposed
193820th century
Place
Moscow Eparchy
Order
Martyrs

Life

Holy Hieromartyr Peter Kosmodamiansky was a priest in the eparchy of Moscow who received the crown of martyrdom in 1938, in the great persecution of the clergy. He lived from 1873 until 22 March 1938.

The sources consulted give no details of the parishes he served. He is entered in the Synaxis of the New Martyrs of Butovo, that is, among those killed at the firing range near Moscow, and in the Synaxis of the Saints of Moscow. The Synod of the Russian Church canonized him in 2001.

He is commemorated on 9 March by the old calendar (22 March by the new, the day of his death).

Commemorated the same day March 9