April 14. The Commemoration of the Pustozersk Martyrs
On April 27 (new style), the Church commemorates the sufferings and burning of the holy hieromartyr and confessor Avvakum and his fellow strugglers: Priest Lazar, Deacon Theodore, and Monk Epiphanius. These martyrs gave up their souls to God in Pustozersk in the year 1682. The supporters of Patriarch Nikon did not shrink from the cruelest…