Presbyter
Saint Sergius was born on February 3, 1883, in the village of Sandyri, Kolomensky district. He graduated from three classes of the Moscow Theological Seminary and was ordained as a deacon at the Kolomna Assumption Cathedral. In 1918, he became a priest at the Trinity Church in the village of Troitskie Ozerki. He served in the Nikolsk Church in the village of Gorodnya. In the late 1920s – early 1930s, persecutions against the Church began. In March 1930, he was arrested for anti-Soviet agitation related to the collection of seeds in common granaries. After his arrest, he was held in prison in Kolomna. On June 3, 1932, the OGPU troika sentenced him to three years of imprisonment in a corrective labor camp, where he worked on the construction of the White Sea-Baltic Canal. Upon his return, he resumed serving in the church. On October 14, 1937, he was arrested and imprisoned in Taganka prison. On October 25, 1937, the NKVD troika sentenced him to execution. The priest was shot on October 31, 1937, and buried in an unknown common grave at the Butovo shooting range near Moscow.
