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From Creation through the Apostles to the present, one faith has been kept whole. Toggle the layers to follow a single thread or overlay several — and see exactly where others departed.
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1917–1991 · Russia
The New Martyrs of Russia
The Bolshevik persecution began within weeks of the October Revolution: Archpriest John Kochurov, shot at Tsarskoye Selo in 1917, is honored as its protomartyr, and Metropolitan Vladimir of Kiev (martyred January 1918) as its first hierarch-martyr. Patriarch Tikhon shepherded the Church as a confessor, and the Great Terror of 1937–38 was the bloodiest season: tens of thousands were executed — at the Butovo range alone, 20,761 people in fifteen months, around a thousand of them for the faith. At the Jubilee Council of 2000 the Church glorified the Synaxis of the New Martyrs and Confessors of Russia.
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