Presbyter
Saint Martyr Sergius was born on April 1, 1873, in the city of Kasimov, Ryazan Province, in the family of psalmist Ivan Amanov. Father Sergius died in 1916. In 1894, he graduated from the Ryazan Theological Seminary, got married, and in 1897 was ordained a priest at the church in the village of Kolesnya. With the onset of persecution against the Russian Orthodox Church, the Bolsheviks attempted to kill the priest, but he escaped by moving to another village.
In 1929, due to collectivization, the residents of the village were required to surrender grain in unusually large quantities. Father Sergius did not recognize himself as guilty of opposing grain procurement. On October 23, 1929, he was arrested. The investigation accused him of anti-Soviet activities, but he denied all charges.
On January 29, 1930, he was sentenced to three years of imprisonment in a concentration camp. In 1932, he returned home, but soon was dismissed. In 1937, he was arrested again and interrogated. On December 2, the NKVD troika sentenced him to execution. Priest Sergius Amanov was shot on December 10, 1937, and buried in an unknown common grave.
