Saint Afanasy
1884–1937 · Contemporary
Biography
Alexey Yegorovich Yegorov (March 7, 1884, Surushino village, Tver Governorate — August 19, 1937, Moscow) was an igumen and a saint of the Russian Orthodox Church, canonized as a hieromartyr in 2001 for universal veneration. He was executed by firing squad in 1937 following a sentence by the Military Collegium of the Supreme Court of the USSR in the case of an "anti-Soviet terrorist fascist organization of churchmen." He was posthumously rehabilitated.
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