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Преподобномученик Афанасий (Егоров)

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Священномученик Александр (Парусников)

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Сентября 3 (16) Священномученик Алексий (Зиновьев)

Compiled by Hegumen Damascene (Orlovsky)

Hieromartyr Alexis was born on March 1, 1879 in the village of Grekovo-Kazanskoye, Voronezh province, in the family of the priest John Zinoviev. From 1898 to 1904, Alexei studied at the Tula Theological Seminary, after which he was ordained a priest to the church in the village of Voskresenskoye, Chernsky district, Tula province. In 1914, he was transferred to the church in the city of Yefremov.

From 1917, Father Alexis served in the church in the village of Storozha, Moscow Province. During the thirteen years that the priest served here, the Orthodox fell in love with the kind and zealous pastor. When in 1930, during another persecution, he was arrested on charges of allegedly creating anti-Soviet groups in the village, the parishioners unanimously came out in defense of the priest - almost all the residents of the village of Storozha came to the village council and demanded the release of the innocent pastor. The authorities, however, did not release Father Alexis and escorted him to prison in the city of Yefremov, where he was detained for about five weeks, and then he was released, returned to the village and began to serve in the church as before.

In the early thirties, in connection with collectivization, the destruction of peasant farms, the forcible formation of collective farms and the confiscation of all available grain from the peasants, the peasants began to hide it so as not to die of hunger. The plan, according to which the peasants had to hand over grain to the state, exceeded their capabilities and doomed them to death from hunger. Seeing that the authorities in the village were conducting general searches in order to seize bread, the psalmist Fyodor Kananykhin begged Father Alexis to put his grain and flour in the bell tower until the time came. The priest, although he had a premonition that the case could end in arrest for them, could not refuse.

In 1932, the OGPU began to receive information that in the village of Storozha the grain procurement plan had been fulfilled by 8.9% and that the priest Alexy Zinoviev, the psalmist Fyodor Kananykhin and the peasants who often visited the church - Ivan Popov, Vasily Razenkov and Andrei Beregovsky - were allegedly to blame for this. On December 2, 1932, they were all arrested and imprisoned in the city of Yefremov.

On December 4 and 6, the authorities searched the church and found two sacks of rye, a sack of millet and fifteen poods of flour, which were taken away on account of grain procurements.

During the interrogation, the priest, answering the investigator's questions, said that he had met with the psalmist and the peasants and said that the Soviet government had strangled the individual farmers, did not allow them to live, that life used to be better.