Presbyter
Peter Ivanovich Konardov was born in the village of Troitskoye, Moscow province, in 1870. He came from a priestly family, graduated from the Theological Seminary, and was ordained as a deacon, later becoming a priest. He served in the Church of John the Baptist in the village of Ivanovskoye until the end of 1936. On December 26, 1936, he was arrested and placed in Butyrka prison, accused of having a 'hostile attitude towards the party and Soviet power,' and sentenced to 5 years of exile in Kazakhstan. At the Shcherbakty Station, he met with other victims, and prayers were unceasing. On November 20, 1937, he was arrested again, accused of 'membership in a counter-revolutionary group.' During the interrogation, he denied belonging to sects but did not deny participating in worship services. The troika of the NKVD of the East Kazakhstan region sentenced him to the highest measure of punishment. On November 28, 1937, he was shot. On August 20, 2000, he was canonized as a saint.
