Presbyter
Saint Sergey was born on July 4, 1878, in the village of Myshtsy, Ryazan province, in the family of priest Ioann Lyubomudrov. In 1899, he graduated from three classes of the Ryazan Theological Seminary and began serving as a psalmist in the Pronsk Cathedral. In 1906, he was ordained as a deacon, and in 1916 — as a priest at the church in honor of the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God in the village of Sushkovo. He served until his arrest, having ministered in the church until February 3, 1938, and was arrested on February 6. He was accused of counter-revolutionary agitation and of inviting other priests to the burial of Bishop Feodosiy. During the interrogation, he refused to admit his guilt, asserting that he did not conduct any agitation against the Soviet government. On February 16, 1938, the NKVD troika sentenced him to execution. The priest was shot on February 21, 1938, and buried in an anonymous mass grave at the Butovo firing range near Moscow.
