Presbyter
To the Holy Martyr Vasily Alekseevich Amenitsky, born on February 19, 1872, in the village of Moshok, Sudogodsky district of Vladimir province, after completing 4 classes of the Vladimir Theological Seminary, served as a regent in a church in the Vyaznikovsky district. In 1902, he was ordained as a deacon, and in 1909 – as a priest. He served in a church in the Kovrovsky district, then – in the village of Biberevo. In 1930, the priest's family was dispossessed, and he himself was imprisoned. From April 1930, he was part of the clergy of the Trinity Church in the village of Efimyevo. On October 17, 1937, he was arrested, accused of 'creating a church-monarchist organization.' By the decision of the troika of the NKVD on October 28, 1937, he was sentenced to 10 years of corrective labor, serving his term in the Baikal-Amur ITL, where he passed away on August 20, 1938. He was glorified by the Archdiocesan Jubilee Council of the Russian Orthodox Church in the year 2000.
