Deacon
Saint Veniamin Ksenofontovich Vladimirskiy was born on October 10, 1892, in the village of Negonovo, Makaryevsky district of Nizhny Novgorod province, in the family of a deacon. After graduating from the Theological School, he served as a psalmist. In the 1920s, he was ordained as a deacon and served in the Nikolsky Church in the village of Prosek. Priest Veniamin was arrested on September 15, 1937, and accused of participating in a 'church-fascist, diversion-terrorist organization.' Father Veniamin did not admit his guilt. He was shot on November 20, 1937, by the verdict of the troika of the NKVD. He was buried in an unknown common grave at the Bugrovsky cemetery in Nizhny Novgorod. He was glorified by the Archpastoral Jubilee Council of the Russian Orthodox Church in the year 2000.
