Presbyter
Saint Yaroslav was born on March 28, 1882, in the village of Pukhloe, Grodno province, in the family of deacon Isaac Savitsky. After graduating from the Theological Seminary in 1903, he was ordained a priest in 1905. Yaroslav Isaakovich married Olga Fedorovna, and they had two sons and a daughter. During World War I, he served in the Krasnostok Women's Monastery, and after its evacuation to the Ekaterininskaya Desert, he remained there until 1929, when the church was closed. In 1919, he was elevated to the rank of protopresbyter. In 1923, for his zealous service to the Church, he was awarded a palitsa. In 1929, he became the rector of the church of Saints Florus and Laurus in the village of Yam. During this time, he actively supported the parishioners in the conditions of collectivization, for which he was accused of counter-revolutionary activity. Arrested on November 27, 1937, he was sentenced and shot on December 8, 1937, and buried at the Butovo firing range near Moscow.
