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Trial by Fire

Trial by Fire

Martyrdom by fire is shown opposite to the martyrdom by water. Priest Joachim Frolov was burned alive in 1921 in the Amur Province in the Far East. Only his pectoral cross was found among the ashes.

Christian martyrs were undoubtedly among the 1,000 prisoners burned alive in the NKVD prison in Kharkov, and among 180 prisoners burned alive in the village if Valuika near Chuguev, in the fall of 1941, at the retreat of the Red Army.

Holy New Martyrs of Russia, Pray to God for Us