Presbyter
Saint Alexius was born on February 5, 1882, in the village of Irinin, Podolsk district of Moscow province. In 1900, he graduated from the Don Spiritual School, and in 1906 from the Moscow Spiritual Seminary. In 1908, he was ordained a priest and served his entire life in the Church of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross. In 1927, he was awarded a pectoral cross, and in 1930, he was elevated to the rank of protopresbyter. In the same year, he was listed among those marked for dekulakization, but the deportation was canceled.
On January 23, 1938, he was arrested and imprisoned in Butyrka prison. During interrogation, he denied the accusations of anti-Soviet agitation. On February 8, 1938, the NKVD troika sentenced him to execution. Protopresbyter Alexius Sharov was shot on February 17, 1938, and buried in an unmarked mass grave at the Butovo firing range near Moscow.
