Theodore Belkin of Belogorsk, novice

Venerable Martyr Theodore (in the world, Fyodor Andreyevich Belkin) labored as a novice at the Belogorsky St. Nicholas Monastery. On October 10, 1918, at the age of nineteen, he suffered a martyr’s death at the hands of the Bolsheviks.

He was numbered among the saints as one of the New Martyrs and Confessors of Russia in August 2000, at the Bishops’ Council of the Russian Orthodox Church.

Days of commemoration: August 25 (August 12 according to the Old Style), in the Synaxis of the Saints of the Perm Metropolis, and in the Synaxis of the New Martyrs and Confessors of the Russian Church.