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December 3 he was sentenced, in accordance with articles 58-10 and 58-11, to
ten years’ exile in Siberia with confiscation of his property.
James Sergeyevich Rozhentsov was born in 1869 in the village of
Nolinskoye, Ufa canton, Ufa province into a peasant family. He had a family
of five people. He was accused he was arrested and condemned. The
indictment said that this group of churchmen “at underground sessions
discussed plans for an uprising planned for the spring of this year”. On
December 3, 1930 he was sentenced to death in accordance with article 58-10
part 2 and 58-13.
James Lavrentyevich Berestov. He was born in 1878 in the village of
Nolinskoye, Ufa uyezd, Ufa province. He was a kulak and had a family of
seven people. He was disenfranchised and dekulakised. On April 15, 1930 he
was arrested, and on December 3 was sentenced in accordance with articles
58-10 part 2 and 58-13 to ten years in the camps, commuted to ten years’ exile
in the north with confiscation of his property, with a labour norm for the rest
of his family. Nothing more is known about him.
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Priest Timothy Porfiryevich Strelkov was born on January 15, 1880 in the
village of Atyazhkino, Pomayevskaya volost, Buinsky uyezd, Simbirsk
province, in a Mordovian peasant family. He went to a village and a city
school, and then to Simbirsk pedagogical seminary. Then he was sent as a
teacher to the village of Mikhailovka, twelve kilometres from the regional
centre of Duvan, Bashkiria. He married Nadezhda Ionovna, and became a
priest in the village. He had four sons and one daughter.
Fr. Timothy was the younger brother of another priest, Father Theodore
Strelkov, who had been president of the local section of “The Union of the
Russian People” before the revolution and then left with the armies of
Admiral Kolchak to the East, to Harbin, where he died. In 1919 Fr. Timothy
also left with the White armies, and went to Omsk.
Before that, however, according to Schema-Monk Epiphanius (Chernov),
the following great miracle took place:
“In the summer of 1918, as living witnesses of this very great wonder
relate, this outstanding priest, Fr. Timothy, was arrested by the reds on the
eve of the day of the Holy Trinity. On the same day they sentenced him to
death as a fearless confessor of Christ. In the night of Trinity they led him on
foot out of the village of Mikhailovka, under mounted guard, in the direction
of Duvan. A large crowd of people accompanied their beloved pastor. In this
crowd there were also representatives of the "new authorities". Some
mourned and wept, but others rejoiced and celebrated... In spite of the late
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