Presbyter
Saint Valentine was born in 1891 in the family of deacon Mikhail Belov. He studied at the Perm Theological School and then graduated from the 1st Ussov Two-Class School in 1907. In 1909, he was appointed as a psalmist at the Pokrov Church in the village of Potashka, Krasnoufimsky District, Perm Province, and simultaneously served as the law teacher at the Cherkasov Primary School. On October 21, 1914, he was ordained by Bishop Andronicus of Perm as a deacon for this same church. In 1915, the clergy of the district elected him as the head of the choir courses. From 1910 to 1915, he was the regent at the Pokrov Church.
On January 1, 1917, Deacon Valentine was transferred to the Spaso-Preobrazhensky Perm Cathedral and served at the archbishop's services as an ipodiacon. After the arrest and martyr's death of Archbishop Andronicus on June 7 (20), 1918, Deacon Valentine was appointed as a priest at the Trinity Church of the Ashap Factory in the Osinsky District on December 9, 1918, was ordained, and sent there to serve on December 17 of the same year. In December 1918, he was hacked to death with sabers and shot by the Bolsheviks.
