Presbyter
Saint Alexander was born on May 22, 1888, in the village of Petrovskoye, Bronnitsky district of Moscow province. In 1904, he graduated from the Kolomna Spiritual School, and in 1912, he graduated from the Moscow Spiritual Seminary and was ordained a priest. During the persecutions by the godless authorities in the 1930s, he served in the Church of the Nativity of Christ in the village of Varvarino, Podolsky district. In 1930, his property was confiscated, and he was brought to judicial responsibility for conducting the funeral of a deceased person without documents from the civil registry. On January 21, 1938, he was arrested and imprisoned in Taganka prison in Moscow. During interrogations, he refused to admit his guilt in anti-Soviet agitation and expressed disagreement with the policy of the Soviet authorities regarding the repression of clergy. On February 2, 1938, the NKVD troika sentenced him to execution. Priest Alexander Minervin was shot on February 17, 1938, and buried in an unknown common grave at the Butovo firing range near Moscow.
