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Hieromonk Alypius (Ivanenko) was tonsured and ordained in the Myrrh-
Bearers’ Desert. From September, 1921 he was working in the Myrrh-Bearers’
workers’ artel. At the end of 1923 he was arrested and accused of
“distributing religious literature and concealing church valuables”. On
February 2, 1924 he was sentenced to six years in prison. Nothing more is
known about him.
Hierodeacon Eugene (Danilov) joined the Myrrh-Bearers’ Desert, was
tonsured and ordained to the diaconate. From September, 1921 he was
working in the Myrrh-Bearers’ workers’ artel. At the end of 1923 he was
arrested and accused of “distributing religious literature and concealing
church valuables”. In 1924 he was sentenced to five years in prison. Nothing
more is known about him.
Hierodeacon Raphael (Vechkelev) was tonsured and ordained to the
diaconate in the Myrrh-Bearers Desert. He was the treasurer of the
community, and from 1921 – the accountant of the Myrrh-Bearers workers’
artel. At the end of 1923 he was arrested for “distributing religious literature
and concealing church valuables”, and on February 2, 1924 was sentenced to
four years in prison. After his release he served in the village of Kivatskoye,
Mordovo-Boklinsk region. In 1931 he was arrested and on September 8 was
sentenced to eight years in the camps and sent to a camp. Nothing more is
known about him.
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Archimandrite Seraphim, in the world Severian Nikandrovich Pavlovsky,
was born in 1869 in the village of Yezhovo, Tsarevokokshaisk uyezd, and
finished six classes at a gymnasium. In 1905 he became a novice in the Nikolo-
Berezovsky missionary monastery. On November 21, 1910 he was tonsured,
on May 30, 1911 was ordained to the diaconate, and on May 31 – to the
priesthood. From 1913 he was living in the Sviyazhsk monastery. From 1918
he was serving in the village of Krasnaya Gorka, from 1921 – in the Danilov
monastery in Moscow, from 1927 in the church of St. Nicholas on Pokrovka,
and from 1927 in the church of the Georgian icon of the Mother of God. On
January 29, 1927 he was raised to the rank of igumen in the Uglich women’s
monastery, and on January 30 – to the rank of archimandrite, being registered
in the Danilov monastery. At the beginning of 1931 he was arrested, and in
March was sentenced to three years’ exile and sent to Arkhangelsk. In
February, 1934 he was released from exile and returned to this native village.
From February, 1936 he served in the village of Kuzhmar. On November 29,
1937 he was arrested, and on December 7 was sentenced to death. On
December 8 he was shot.
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