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Hieromartyr Feodot Shatokhin, Presbyter

Hieromartyr Feodot Shatokhin, Presbyter
Hieromartyr Feodot Shatokhin, Presbyter
Hieromartyr
Presbyter

Saint Theodot Trofimovich Shatokhin was born in 1888 in the village of Zaitsevo, Yekaterinoslav Province. During World War I, he served as a soldier. In 1926, he was arrested for spreading religious beliefs. He was arrested a second time on April 2, 1935, in Donetsk, already being a priest. On July 14, 1935, he was sentenced to 7 years in a corrective labor camp. He was sent to serve his sentence in the Koktun-Kul section of the Karlag of the NKVD. On August 20, 1937, he was arrested in the camp. On September 10, 1937, he was sentenced to the highest measure of punishment and was shot on September 15.

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