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Prophet Ahijah the Shilonite
Sinaxarion

Hieromartyr

Spyridon Yevtushenko

Deacon

Deacon from the Kharkiv region who died in 1938; venerated as a local saint in the Ukrainian Orthodox Church.

Feast
May 19old style June 1
Reposed
193820th century
Place
Kharkiv
Order
Martyrs

Life

Saint Spyridon Makarovich Yevtushenko, hieromartyr, was a deacon in Kharkiv and received the martyr's death by shooting on 25 May 1938, during the Soviet persecution. He is venerated as a local saint of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church and commemorated on 19 May.

He was born on 31 October 1883 in the village of Solonitsevka in the Kharkiv governorate. After the revolution of 1917 he was ordained deacon and served at the Three Hierarchs church in Kharkiv. He was arrested on 21 March 1938 and sentenced to death. He was shot on 25 May 1938 in Kharkiv.

On 22 June 1993 the Holy Synod of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church decided on his local canonization in the Kharkiv diocese, in the Synaxis of the New Martyrs and Confessors of the Sloboda land. The service of glorification took place on 3 and 4 July 1993 in the Annunciation cathedral of Kharkiv, during the visit of Metropolitan Volodymyr of Kyiv and all Ukraine.

His canonization is local and not that of the whole Orthodox Church.

Commemorated the same day May 19