Ananias Aristov

Holy Hieromartyr Ananias Aristov, a priest of the village of Serga in the Perm district, was shot on 2 November 1918 at Perm, together with Father Constantine Yurganov. The two were glorified by the Council of Bishops of the Russian Church on 20 August 2000. They are commemorated on 15 November.

Constantine Yurganov and Ananias Aristov were both natives of the village of Serga in the Perm district and were ordained priests for the church of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross of their village. They might have served in peace together until old age, guiding and nourishing their fellow villagers spiritually, but the fierce years of the revolution came. Both priests were arrested on 16 June 1918. For four and a half months they lay in prison, then they were charged with counter-⁠revolutionary activity and sentenced to the supreme penalty. The sentence was carried out on 2 November: Father Constantine and Father Ananias were taken to Perm and shot in the garden of the theological seminary. They are also commemorated 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.