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Hieromartyr

Alexis Usenko

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

Feast
November 19old style December 2
Era
unknown
Order
Martyrs

Life

Holy Hieromartyr Alexis Usenko was a priest and received the crown of martyrdom in the time of the persecution of the Church in the twentieth century. He is honoured in the Synaxis of the New Martyrs and Confessors of the Crimean Metropolis, on 2 December, and in the Synaxis of the Saints of Crimea, on 28 December. The sources available to us give no further details of his life, his place of service, the date of his birth or death, or the year of his canonization.

Commemorated the same day November 19