Hieromonk
Saint martyr Gennady (in the world Grigory Lavrentyevich Letyuk) was born in 1874 in the village of Belovody Kharkov province. In 1895, he became a novice at the Petropavlovsky Monastery in the Chernigov province, and later was transferred to the Belogostitsky Monastery in the Yaroslavl province, where he took monastic vows under the name Gennady and was ordained to the priesthood. From 1928, he served as a priest in various parishes of the Rostov district. In 1929, he was arrested on charges of 'counter-revolutionary activity,' but was soon released. From 1938, he was the rector of the church in the village of Petrovskoye in the Yaroslavl region.
On February 19, 1941, he was arrested again and accused of 'discrediting the existing regime.' Father Gennady refused to confirm the charges. On May 9, 1941, he was sentenced under articles 58-10, 58-11 of the Criminal Code of the RSFSR as a 'member of an anti-Soviet group of clergymen' and sentenced to 8 years of imprisonment. On June 9, 1941, he submitted a cassation appeal against the unfairness of the sentence, confirming his innocence. On the same day, article 58-11 was removed from the sentence, but the situation of the convicted did not change. The imprisonment undermined the health of the 67-year-old hieromonk, and on December 18, 1941, he passed away in the Yaroslavl prison. The location of his burial is unknown.
