Presbyter
Saint Demetrius was born in 1880 in the family of a clergyman, John Plyshesky. After graduating from the Minsk Theological Seminary in 1905, he was ordained a priest and served in the Nikolaev Church in the village of Smolevichi. Father Demetrius was arrested on September 26, 1937, during the persecutions against the Russian Orthodox Church, accused of allowing the reading of the lives of saints. During the interrogations, he denied all accusations, asserting that he had not been recruited into a counter-revolutionary organization and had not engaged in counter-revolutionary activities. On November 19, 1937, the NKVD troika sentenced him to death. Priest Demetrius Plyshesky was executed on January 19, 1938, and buried in a common unmarked grave.
