Presbyter
Saint Veniamin was born on January 19, 1873, in the city of Kolomna, Moscow province, in the family of priest Ioann Faminцев. He received his education at the Moscow Theological Seminary, which he graduated from in 1893. In 1894, he became a psalmist in a church in the city of Klin.
In 1901, he was ordained as a deacon, and in 1906, he became a priest at the Trinity Church in the village of Troitskoye. From 1912 to 1917, he served in the Transfiguration Church, and in 1918, he was transferred to the Exaltation of the Cross Church in Kolomna. Since 1919, he served in the Church of the Nativity of the Theotokos in the village of Meshcherino. In 1925, he was elevated to the rank of protodeacon.
In 1936, the Meshcherinsky village council prohibited the priest from visiting parishioners' homes for prayers. On March 7, 1936, the parish council sent a request to the All-Russian Central Executive Committee asking for permission to visit without icons. In the summer of 1937, the persecution of the Church intensified, and on November 26, an article about the priest appeared in the newspaper 'Vpered', accusing him of 'subversive' activities.
On February 27, 1938, he was arrested and imprisoned. During the interrogation, he denied all accusations. On March 9, the NKVD troika sentenced him to execution. Protodeacon Veniamin Faminцев was shot on March 14, 1938, at the Butovo firing range and buried in a common unmarked grave.
