Peter Sakharovsky

Holy Hieromartyr Peter Sakharovsky, an archpriest (Pyotr Ivanovich Sakharovsky), was born in 1876 and served in the churches of the Holy Trinity and the Saviour in Nizhny Novgorod. In August 1937 he was arrested, charged with counter-⁠revolutionary activity, and condemned to the supreme penalty. The sentence was carried out soon after it was pronounced, and the priest received the martyr's crown by shooting. The Jubilee Council of Bishops of the Russian Orthodox Church in the year 2000 numbered him among the saints.

He is commemorated on 4 October, on 7 February (a movable date) in the Synaxis of the New Martyrs and Confessors of the Russian Church and on 12 September (a movable date) in the Synaxis of the Saints of Nizhny Novgorod, in the new style.