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Holymartyr Eugene Yakovlev, Presbyter

Holymartyr Eugene Yakovlev, Presbyter

Holymartyr Eugene Yakovlev, Presbyter

Hieromartyr
Presbyter

Saint Martyr Eugene Nikanorovich Yakovlev was born in 1856. In the 1930s, he served as a priest in the city of Gorky. He was arrested in November 1937 along with a group of clergymen, including Saint Martyr Vasily Zavgorodniy and Martyr Anisiya Maslanova. He was accused of participating in a 'counter-revolutionary church insurgent organization.' During the investigation, he refused to sign the protocols and acknowledge his guilt. On December 2 of the same year, he was sentenced by the Special Troika of the NKVD of the Gorky region to execution by shooting. He was executed on December 7, 1937. He was buried in an unknown mass grave at the Bugrovsky cemetery in the city of Gorky. He was glorified by the Archdiocesan Jubilee Council of the Russian Orthodox Church in the year 2000.

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