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Hieromartyr Alexei Nechayev, Presbyter

Hieromartyr Alexei Nechayev, Presbyter
Hieromartyr Alexei Nechayev, Presbyter
Hieromartyr
Presbyter

Saint Alexius was born in 1875 in the village of Rameshki, Bezhetsk district, Tver province. After graduating from the Theological Seminary, he was ordained as a priest. In 1929, at the demand of the authorities, he was sentenced to three years of imprisonment for tax evasion and was incarcerated in the Nizhny Novgorod colony. Upon his return, he began to serve in Staritsa. On November 20, 1937, he was arrested and imprisoned in the city of Rzhev. During the investigation, he refused to give false testimony, for which he was sentenced to death by shooting. On November 27, 1937, Priest Alexius was shot.

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