Archbishop
Saint Pallin, Archbishop of Mogilev (in the world, Kroshechkin Pyotr Kuz'mich) was born on December 19, 1879, in the Penza province. He lost his father early and was raised by a pious mother. In 1895, he entered the Sarov Monastery, and later the Nikolai-Babaevsky Monastery. He subsequently entered the Novospassky Monastery, where he completed the course of the Spiritual Seminary and the Moscow Spiritual Academy. In 1921, he was consecrated as Bishop of Rylsk, vicar of the Kursk diocese, and tirelessly traveled around the diocese, strengthening Orthodoxy.
From 1926 to 1933, he held the Perm and then Kaluga cathedrals. The hierarch was simple in communication, loved to sing church hymns with the people. In 1926, he was the initiator of the secret election of the Patriarch, traveling to bishops to collect signatures. In 1927, he was arrested and spent a year in solitary confinement, after which he was released.
In 1933, he was appointed to the Mogilev cathedral. On October 11 (24), 1936, he was arrested and sentenced to ten years of imprisonment. The saint was shot on October 21, 1937, in the Kemerovo camp. He was canonized among the ranks of the New Martyrs and Confessors of Russia in August 2000 for church-wide veneration.
