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Martyr

Arethas Saraevsky

A martyr honored in the calendar of the Russian Orthodox Church.

Era
unknown
Order
Martyrs

Life

Holy Hieromartyr Arethas Saraevsky was a servant of the Church in the Ryazan eparchy and died a martyr on 10 January 1938. He was born in 1888.

The list of the Synaxis of the Saints of Ryazan, the only source consulted, places him among the holy new martyrs of 1938, beside the priests Alexander Polivanovsky and Leonid Viktorov, killed on the same day, and preserves no details of his ministry or trial.