Hieromonk
Saint Martyr Aristarchus (in the world Alexander Fedorovich Zaglodin-Kokorev) was born on March 8, 1886, in the village of Pashukovo, Bogorodsky district of the Moscow province, into a peasant family. He graduated from a church-parish school. In 1908, he entered as a novice in the Holy Nicholas Peshnosky Monastery. In 1920, he was tonsured into monasticism with the name Aristarchus and was ordained to the rank of hierodeacon, and in 1926 – to the rank of hieromonk. In 1931, he was sent to serve in the church in the village of Cherneyevo, but soon, on September 24, he was arrested and imprisoned in Butyrka prison. He was accused of demonstratively commemorating the Russian tsars and agitating against the Soviet government. On November 13, 1931, the OGPU troika sentenced him to three years of imprisonment in a correctional labor camp. After returning from imprisonment, he served in the Tver diocese. In 1937, he was arrested again, accused of anti-Soviet activities, and on November 25, sentenced to death by shooting. Saint Martyr Aristarchus was shot on November 27, 1937, and buried in an unknown common grave.
