Alexander Arapov of Belogorsk

Saint Alexander Arapov of Belogorsk (1893 to 1918), Venerable Martyr, was a novice of the Belogorsk monastery and was shot by the Bolsheviks in 1918, together with the brethren of the monastery. He is commemorated on 7 February, with the synaxis of the new martyrs and confessors of the Russian Church, on 14 February with the saints of the Perm metropolis, and on 25 August.

Alexander Vasilyevich Arapov was born in 1893 in the Ufa province, into a peasant family. In 1907 he entered the monastery of Saint Nicholas at Belogorsk, in the Perm diocese, as a novice. In 1918, together with the brethren of the monastery, he was shot by the Bolsheviks for refusing to take part in the celebration of the October Revolution and to join the Red Army. On 2 July 1998 he was canonized as a locally venerated saint of the Perm diocese. The Bishops' Council of the Russian Orthodox Church of 2000 numbered him among the saints venerated throughout the Church.