
New Martyr
Synaxis of the Saints of Slobozhanshchyna
New martyrs and confessors of the Slobozhanshchyna region in Ukraine.
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Life
The Synaxis of the Saints of Slobozhanshchyna comprises the new martyrs and confessors of the Slobozhanshchyna region in Ukraine, also known as Sloboda Ukraine, around the city of Kharkiv. It commemorates together those who confessed Christ in the twentieth century, in the years of persecution against the Church, and who died killed or in prisons and camps.
The sources at hand do not preserve the names, number and details of each confession. The Synaxis is honoured in the Orthodox Church in Ukraine.