Presbyter
Saint Flegont was born on March 28, 1871, in the village of Karyaevo, Yaroslavl Province. After graduating from the Yaroslavl Theological Seminary, he became a teacher at a parish school and was later ordained as a priest. He served in various churches, including the Nikolsky Church in Yaroslavl, where he began teaching the Law of God. During World War I, he fulfilled pastoral duties in military hospitals. In 1915, he was appointed to the church of the Great Martyr Demetrius of Salonika and was awarded a golden pectoral cross.
He was arrested on September 7, 1929, during the persecution of the Russian Orthodox Church. He was accused of anti-Soviet activities related to discussions about church life. He was sentenced to three years of exile in the Northern region and was released on November 10, 1932. He settled on the border of the Moscow and Vladimir regions, working on the railway.
He was arrested again on December 4, 1937, and imprisoned in Taganka prison. He was accused of counter-revolutionary agitation, but he did not admit his guilt. On December 9, 1937, the NKVD troika sentenced him to ten years of imprisonment in a labor camp. He passed away on April 23, 1938, in the camp in Novosibirsk region and was buried in an unmarked grave.
