Hieromonk
Saint Antipa was born on August 3, 1870, in the village of Bratki, Borisoglebsky district, Tambov province, in the family of a peasant, Peter Kirillov. He was baptized with the name Antoniy. After finishing the church-parish school, he entered the brotherhood of the Athos Monastery in 1898 and labored there until 1912. He was then enrolled in the brotherhood of the Novospassky Monastery in Moscow, where he was tonsured into the mantle with the name Antipa. After the 1917 revolution, he returned to his homeland and served as a psalmist in the church.
In 1929, he was ordained as a hieromonk and served in the village of Kozlovka, Borisoglebsky district. From 1931, he served in the Church of the Elevation of the Honorable and Life-Giving Cross of the Lord in the village of Tatarintsevo, Bronitsky district of the Moscow region. During his six years of service in Tatarintsevo, the parishioners loved him for his pious life and sermons.
On February 16, 1938, after the last service on the Feast of the Meeting of the Lord, he was arrested and imprisoned in the Kolomna prison. The investigation accused him of anti-Soviet agitation; however, he rejected all accusations, asserting that all authority is from God and he submits to it. Despite the pressure, he did not confess to being guilty of anti-Soviet activities.
On February 27, 1938, the NKVD troika sentenced him to death by shooting. Saint Antipa was shot on March 7, 1938, and buried in an unknown common grave at the Butovo firing range near Moscow.
