Hieromonk
He was born on March 5, 1877, in the village of Dyakonovo, Arkhangelsk volost, Kologrivsky district of Kostroma province, into the family of a peasant named Pyotr Petrov. He was baptized with the name Pavel. In 1899, he graduated from the company school in the Shadropol regiment. On September 25, 1904, he entered the Valaam Monastery, and on June 2, 1910, he was accepted as a novice. On June 25, 1915, he was tonsured into monasticism with the name Patricius. He served as a carpenter, and from 1917, he labored at the monastery chapel on Vasilievsky Island in Petrograd, where he was ordained as a hieromonk.
Since 1929, the Soviet government intensified its persecution of the Russian Orthodox Church, beginning the widespread destruction of monasteries. On February 18, 1932, Hieromonk Patricius was arrested. During the interrogation on March 11, he stated that he was engaged in the upbringing of parishioners in obedience to the Orthodox Church. On March 22, 1932, the OGPU Collegium sentenced him to three years of exile in Kazakhstan, and he was sent to the Kurdan district of the Almaty region. He passed away in exile on March 24, 1933, and was buried in an unmarked grave.
