Archpriest Michael Polsky – The New Martyrs of Russia (1972)

'Archpriest Michael Polsky, The New Martyrs of Russia, Montreal: Monastery Press, 1972.

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PREFACE OF THE PUBUSHER

"And when he had opened the fifth seal,

I saw under the altar the souls of them that were slain for the word of God,

and for the testimony which they held.” (Rev. 6: 9).

We are publishing the book, “The New Russian Martyrs” on the occasion of the fiftielh anniversary of our Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia. Since we represent the free part of the Russian Church, we consider it our sacred duty to act as the voice of all those who have been, and still are being, martyred and persecuted by the Communists, for confessing their belief in God.

Moreover, we have, in the number of our faithful here in the free world, tens of thousands of living witnesses to the persecution of the faith in the USSR. These are people which did not return to the homeland after the second world war and who, to this day, thank God for that freedom which they enjoy here in the west. Many of them bear upon their own bodies, scars from wounds and tortures as sacred imprints of their suffering for Christ.

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