Alexis Saburov

Holy Hieromartyr Alexis Saburov, a protopriest, was drowned in the river Kama, at Perm, on 17 December 1918, by the Bolsheviks. He is commemorated together with the priest Alexander Posokhin, killed the same day. The Russian Church honours them among the New Martyrs and Confessors.

In 1914 and 1915 Father Alexis was a priest in the army at the front. Then, until December 1918, he served at the church of the Resurrection of Christ and at the prison church in the city of Perm. In 1918 the Bolsheviks tormented many priests of Perm and the Perm district, and Protopriest Alexis did not escape the martyr's end. According to his granddaughter, on the night of 16 to 17 December he was raised from his bed in his shirt, with a noose around his neck, led barefoot through the snow to the Kama and, tied to an iron bed, drowned. The same day, 17 December 1918, the priest Alexander Posokhin, who served in the village of Krasno-⁠Sludskoe in the Perm district, was drowned in the Kama, after cruel torture and mockery.

They are commemorated on 17 December, on 7 February, in the Synaxis of the New Martyrs and Confessors of the Russian Church, and on 14 February, in the Synaxis of the Saints of the Perm Metropolis.