Andrey Benediktov, Presbyter

To the holy martyr and priest Andrew Nikolaevich Benediktov, born in 1885 in the village of Voronino of the Nizhny Novgorod province, an arrest was presented on August 6, 1937. He was a priest of the church in Nizhny Novgorod. The accusation concerned participation in a counter-revolutionary church group and anti-Soviet conversations. Priest Andrew did not acknowledge his guilt and did not give testimonies against others. By the verdict of August 21, 1937, he was shot, and later rehabilitated. He was glorified in the ranks of saints by the Archdiocesan Council of the Russian Orthodox Church in 2000.