Presbyter
Saint Veniamin was born on March 24, 1880, in the village of Oparino, Vladimir Province. In 1904, he graduated from the Moscow Theological Seminary and became a teacher. In 1906, he was ordained a priest at the church in the village of Chekovo, where he served until his arrest. During the persecutions against the Church, he was subjected to legal responsibility for tax evasion.
In 1930, the church in the village of Chekovo was closed, but Veniamin obtained permission to resume services. He was arrested on September 8, 1937, and imprisoned in a jail in Yuryev-Polsky. He was accused of spreading counter-revolutionary rumors and practicing medicine secretly. On September 27, the NKVD troika sentenced him to execution. Priest Veniamin was shot on October 1, 1937, and buried in an unmarked grave.
