Monk
Saint martyr Iakinf Pitateliev (in the world Ilya Ivanovich Pitateliev) was born in 1882 in the village of Ust-Aktaysky of the Verkhoturye district of the Perm province in a peasant family. From childhood, he had weak health. Under the influence of Saint Ilya (Chebotaryov), on October 12, 1912, he entered the Verkhoturye men's monastery. On June 25, 1917, he took monastic vows with the name Iakinf and was sent to the Maloaktaysky skete, where he served as a cook, reader, and psalmist.
After 1917, the monastery was occupied and plundered by the Red Army. In October 1918, when military units of Admiral A.V. Kolchak entered Verkhoturye, Iakinf and Saint martyr Kalist remained in obedience. On October 25, 1918, the Red Army conducted a search and arrested them, accusing them of counter-revolutionary activities. The monks were offered to renounce Christ in exchange for freedom, but they refused and were executed on October 30 near the station of Karelin. The bodies of the martyrs were found after the retreat of the Red Army and were transferred to the monastery on November 23, 1918. On November 25, Archimandrite Ksenofont (Medvedev) led the solemn funeral service, and they were buried in the brotherly cemetery next to the church in honor of St. Neophytus. In the 1930s, the church and cemetery were destroyed.
By the decree of the Holy Synod on July 17, 2002, the name of Iakinf (Pitateliev) was included in the Assembly of New Martyrs and Confessors of Russia.
