Saint Theodore Semenovich Abrosimov was born into a family of a fisherman-pomor in the Ter area village of Chavanga. In 1913, he became a novice at the Trifon-Pechenga Monastery, but from 1915 to 1918, he served in the army during World War I. After demobilization, he served in the navy and was part of the army of General Miller. In the autumn of 1919, Theodore returned to his native monastery, where he undertook many obediences, including work at the monastery's power station. In 1920, Pechenga and the monastery came under Finnish control. In 1939, as a result of the actions of the Red Army during the Soviet-Finnish War, he was deported with the brethren to Lovozero for the construction of the Alluayvstroy combine. In 1940, after Pechenga was transferred to Finland, the brethren returned to the monastery, but Theodore decided to remain in the USSR. On June 2, 1940, he was arrested and imprisoned in the Monchegorsk prison, and soon transferred to Murmansk. On August 19, 1940, he was sentenced to eight years in camps for 'espionage' and sent to the Ukhta-Izhma ITL, where he died of exhaustion on August 2, 1941. Theodore Abrosimov was posthumously rehabilitated on April 13, 1989, by the Prosecutor's Office of the Murmansk region.
