Venerable Martyr
Alexander Noskov
of St Panteleimon Monastery
A schemamonk from Murom, of Rossikon, shot in 1930; venerated by the faithful, not formally canonized.
- Reposed
- 193020th century
- Place
- St Panteleimon (chancery), Mount Athos
- Order
- Martyrs
Life
Alexander Noskov was a Russian monk from Murom, of St Panteleimon Monastery (Rossikon) on Athos, who died in prison in 1930. He is venerated by the faithful as a venerable martyr, without a synodal canonization.
He was born in 1884 at Murom, in Vladimir province. On 1 July 1910 he was received at St Panteleimon Monastery and on 29 February 1912 he was tonsured a rassophore. He worked in the monastery's chancery. In 1915 he was drafted for the First World War, and from 1918 to 1922 he stayed at the Rossikon metochion in Moscow. He was arrested on 17 September 1929 and sentenced. He died in custody, at forest felling at Razvalovka, on 21 April 1930. The Russian source does not say that he was shot.