Saint Hermogenes was born on December 4, 1870, in the village of Mokry Michkass, Lower Lomov District, Penza Province. In 1885, she entered the Lower Lomov Uspensky Monastery, where she was tonsured into the mantle with the name Hermogenes. After the closure of the monastery in the 1920s, she earned a living by washing laundry and doing domestic work, and later returned to her native village.
In 1930, nun Hermogenes moved to Moscow and took a job as a servant, and from 1931, she worked as a cleaner in the Church of the Transfiguration of the Savior in the village of Bogorodskoye. On October 5, 1937, she was arrested and imprisoned in Butyrka Prison. During a search, religious items were seized from her, which were destroyed by the NKVD officers.
The investigation accused her of anti-Soviet agitation and spreading counter-revolutionary rumors. On November 11, 1937, the NKVD troika sentenced her to ten years of imprisonment in a labor camp. Saint Hermogenes passed away on June 10, 1942, in Oneglag and was buried in an unmarked grave. Her memory is celebrated on May 28 (June 10).
