Orthodox calendar: November 13 - memory of the Hieromartyr John Kochurov, Tsarskoye Selotranslated

24th Week after Pentecost.

Today, November 12, 2026, the Orthodox Church honors the memory of St. from the 70 Stachia, Amplia, Urvana, Narcissa, Appellia and Aristobula (I); martyr Epimakha (about 250); St. Moors of Constantinople (V); prpp. Spiridon and Nikodim, prosphora bearers of Pechersk (XII); sschmch. Archpriest John of Tsarskoye Selo, Petrograd (1917); prmch. Leonida (1918); sschmchch. Vsevolod, Alexander, Sergius and Alexy and Vasily, Peter, Vasily presbyters, martyr. Anatoly, Euphrosyne and martyr. Jacob (1937); prmch. Innocent (1938).

Fast day.

On November 13, 1917, in Tsarskoe Selo, a new bright page opened, filled with deep sorrow and at the same time with high joy, a page in the history of Russian church holiness - the holiness of the new martyrs of the 20th century. The discovery of this page turned out to be connected with the name of the Russian Orthodox pastor, who became one of the first to lay down his soul for his children in the atheistic 20th century, Archpriest John Kochurov.

Hieromartyr Archpriest John Kochurov was born on July 13, 1871 in the village of Bigildino (Surki), Dankovsky district, Ryazan province, into a pious and large family of rural priest Alexander Kochurov and his wife Anna. His father for many years...