Stephen of Kazan

Holy Martyr Stephen of Kazan was of Tatar descent, paralysed in the legs for twenty years, healed after he believed in Christ and baptized in 1552, after the taking of Kazan by Ivan the Terrible.

After the Russian army had left the city, Stephen was cut to pieces by men of his own people for steadfastness in the Christian faith. His body was scattered and his house plundered. At that time the holy martyr Peter also suffered for Christ at Kazan.

He is commemorated on 6 April and on 17 October in the Synaxis of the Saints of Kazan, in the new style.