Presbyter
Father Yakov Andreevich Peradiy was born on October 23, 1871, in the village of Mlyny, Hadyach County, Poltava Province. After receiving primary education, he became a priest and was elevated to the rank of protodeacon in 1934. He served in the church of the village of Velbovka, Hadyach District, Kharkiv Region.
On August 28, 1936, Protodeacon Yakov was arrested on charges of participating in a 'counter-revolutionary group of clergymen,' and on March 27, 1937, he was sentenced to 5 years of exile in Kazakhstan. In exile, he worked as a watchman for the Dorsroy in the village of Borodulikha, East Kazakhstan Region. On November 21, the priest was arrested again for 'anti-Soviet agitation against the collective farm system' and placed in a pre-trial detention center, and then transferred to the Semipalatinsk prison. He did not plead guilty, but on November 27, he was sentenced to death by shooting. The holy martyr was buried in an unmarked grave.
The name of Protodeacon Yakov was included in the Synaxis of New Martyrs and Confessors of Russia by the decision of the Holy Synod on December 27, 2000.
