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Hieromartyr

Alexander Osetrov

A Russian priest who died a martyr for his faith in Christ during the communist persecution.

Feast
June 7old style June 20
Reposed
191820th century
Order
Martyrs

Life

Saint Hieromartyr Alexander Osetrov (died 1918) was a priest at the church of Saint Nicholas in the village of Teles, in the Osa district, Perm province, and was hacked with sabres and shot by the Bolsheviks in the autumn of 1918, at the age of twenty-⁠three. He is commemorated on 20 June, on 7 February with the synaxis of the new martyrs, and on 14 February with the saints of the Perm metropolis.

On 17 March 1919 his remains were moved and buried in the grounds of the Dormition convent in Perm. No other details of his life are kept.

Commemorated the same day June 7