"In Chimkent, Metropolitan (Saint) Joseph met Metropolitan (Saint) Cyril, and lived together with him under arrest and received with him a martyric death…
This fact was known in the Catacomb Church in Moscow. This detail was told to the author of these
lines in prison by a Moscow priest. Every day, when they let Metropolitan Cyril and Joseph out for
a walk, they walked side by side, pressed against each other. Now Metropolitan Joseph was tall, and by comparison with him the stocky Metropolitan Cyril was short. As they walked in a circle, they were always engaged in concentrated conversation. Evidently there, in the open air, no one could overhear them. And these two figures, as if fitting into each other, gave a touching demonstration of the 'two-in-one' nature of these hierarchs. And this walk of the Metropolitans was watched by some catacomb nuns from a hill. This was not without danger. It was necessary to disguise it, so that the authorities should not notice this secret signalling. And it came to the point where the Metropolitans gave them their blessing at the beginning and at the end of their walk.
I heard this detail from inhabitants of Chimkent both in captivity and in freedom. So there can be no doubt about this sojourn of Metropolitan Cyril with Metropolitan Joseph in the autumn of 1937. Both 'Moscow' and 'Chimkent' witness to it. Now there are no traces left of the little house in which the hierarch-confessors were kept. They demolished it when they noticed that the place enjoyed special veneration from the believers..."