Butovo: The Russian Golgotha and the New Martyrs
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February 8, 2026 · Source: Orthodox Church in America
At a firing range south of Moscow, 20,761 people were shot in fifteen months of the Great Terror — around a thousand of them for the faith. Butovo is why the Church keeps the feast of the New Martyrs and Confessors of Russia.
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