Presbyter
Saint Alexius was born on February 9, 1875, in the village of Velino, Bronitsky district of Moscow province. In 1895, he graduated from the Moscow Theological Seminary, and in 1898, he was ordained as a deacon. In 1917, he became a priest. He served in the church of the Beheading of John the Baptist, and later in the Assumption Church in the village of Gzhel. In 1929, he was invited to serve in the village of Zagornovo. In 1932, he was arrested on false charges of anti-Soviet agitation. On January 10, 1933, he was sentenced to five years of exile in Kazakhstan. After his release, he returned to ministry, but on March 25, 1938, he was arrested again. On June 7, 1938, the NKVD troika sentenced him to execution. Priest Alexius was shot on July 4, 1938, and buried in an unmarked grave at the Butovo firing range near Moscow.
