Alexander Fleginsky

Saint Hieromartyr Alexander Fleginsky (1861 to 1918) was a priest and dean in the Kuban and was hacked to pieces by soldiers of the Red Army in March 1918, in the stanitsa of Georgie-⁠Afipskaya. He is commemorated on 6 April (24 March by the old calendar), on 7 February with the synaxis of the new martyrs and confessors of the Russian Church, and on 3 October with the saints of the Kuban metropolis.

The priest Alexander Kosmich Fleginsky was born on 19 February 1861 into a priest's family. Finishing the Stavropol seminary in 1883, he received a place as psalm-⁠reader at the Kazan cathedral in Stavropol. In the same year he was ordained deacon, then priest, and assigned to the clergy of the church of the holy Martyr Longinus the Centurion in the stanitsa of Klyuchevaya, in the Kuban region. In 1885 he was moved to the stanitsa of Krasnogorskaya, where he was district missionary, then district confessor of the deanery. He was a member of the church archaeological society of the Stavropol diocese.

In 1908 he was moved to the stanitsa of Georgie-⁠Afipskaya and appointed dean of the 17th district. After Bolshevik troops took the stanitsa, in March 1918, a wave of violence and reprisals swept over the settlement. Then Father Alexander was seized and hacked to pieces by the Red soldiers. The date of death was established later: 24 March. His body was found outside the stanitsa, seven months after the killing. Father Alexander's son managed to take the remains to Yekaterinodar, where, on 18 September, in the Alexander Nevsky cathedral, the funeral service took place, in the presence of a great crowd of people and clergy.

On 4 May 2017 the Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church decided to enter the name of the priest Alexander Fleginsky in the synaxis of the new martyrs and confessors of the Russian Church, with commemoration on 6 April (24 March).