Peter Reshetnikov

Holy Hieromartyr Peter Reshetnikov, a priest, was born in 1886 in a peasant family. In 1899 he finished the two-⁠class parish school. On 28 September 1911 he was ordained deacon for the church in the village of Ilinskoe, Perm district, and on 2 December 1914 priest and named to the church in the village of Bym, Osa district, but sent to serve at the church in the village of Yershi, in the same district. On 22 April 1917 he was moved to the church in Plotnikovo, Kungur district, but in fact went on serving at Yershi.

On 29 August (11 September, new style) 1918, after cruel torments and mockery, he was shot by Red soldiers. The newspaper Liberation of Russia wrote: In the village of Yershi the priest Peter Reshetnikov was shot and his property plundered, so that the family was left without any means. The Jubilee Council of Bishops of the Russian Orthodox Church in the year 2000 numbered him among the New Martyrs and Confessors of Russia.

He is commemorated on 12 September, on 7 February (a movable date) in the Synaxis of the New Martyrs and Confessors of the Russian Church and on 14 February (a movable date) in the Synaxis of the Saints of the Perm Metropolis.