Ioann Nikolaevich Mironskiy

Ioann Nikolaevich Mironekiy was born in 1877 in the village of Russkiye Yurtkuli, Samara Governorate.

In 1929, he was arrested by the OGPU but was held for no more than 5 days before being released.

By 1936, he was working as a carpenter and had a wife and sons: Pavel, Alexander, and Dmitry.

On April 6, 1936, he was re-arrested on charges of membership in a counter-revolutionary group and anti-Soviet agitation. He was sentenced to five years of exile in Kazakhstan, where he served his sentence in the village of Orlovka, Chayanov District, South Kazakhstan Region, working as a gardener.

On December 20, 1937, he was arrested again in exile by the Chayanov District NKVD on charges of being "a participant in a counter-revolutionary organization of churchmen, creating an illegal prayer house, and illegally conducting religious rites." Along with him, monk Viktor Matveyevich Matveev and priest Vladimir Preobrazhensky, who lived with him in the Aksai Gorge near the village of Orlovka, were also arrested. They were all implicated in the group case "counter-revolutionary organization of churchmen of the Chayanov District, South Kazakhstan Region, 1937."

On December 30, 1937, Father Ioann Mironskiy was sentenced to the highest measure of punishment.

He was executed by shooting on December 31, 1937, at midnight along with Viktor Matveev and priest Vladimir Preobrazhensky in the South Kazakhstan (Chimkent) Region. They were buried in an unknown common grave.

On May 31, 1989, he was rehabilitated by the prosecutor's office of the Chimkent Region for the 1937 repressions, and on July 14 of the same year, he was rehabilitated by the prosecutor's office of the Ulyanovsk Region for the 1936 repressions.

He was canonized as a new martyr and confessor of Russia in August 2000 by the Bishops' Council of the Russian Orthodox Church.