Presbyter
Saint Alexander (Alexander Alexandrovich Rozhdestvensky) was born on August 11, 1874, in the family of a priest in the Blagoveshchenskoye parish of the Novotorzhsky district of Tver province. He graduated from the Theological Seminary and in 1902 was ordained as a priest for the church of his native village, where he served until the beginning of the persecutions in the 1930s.
In 1930, the authorities confiscated all property from the priest, and in 1932 he was sentenced to two years of imprisonment in a corrective labor camp. Upon returning from imprisonment, he began to serve in the church of the village of Pereslegino.
On December 21, 1937, Fr. Alexander was arrested by the NKVD. The investigation found no evidence of his anti-state activities, but the investigator composed accusations according to a template. On December 26, the NKVD Troika sentenced him to execution, and on December 28, 1937, he was shot.
