Aristarchus Zaglodin-⁠Kokorev

Holy Venerable Martyr Aristarchus (in the world Alexander Feodorovich Zaglodin-⁠Kokorev) was a hieromonk of the Russian Church. He was born on 8 March 1886 in Moscow province and was shot on 27 November 1937 in the Kalinin region. He was numbered among the New Martyrs and Confessors of Russia by the Jubilee Council of Bishops of 13 to 16 August 2000, for veneration throughout the Church, and entered in the calendar by decision of the Holy Synod of 27 December 2000. His commemoration is on 14 November by the old calendar (27 November by the new) and in the Synaxis of the New Martyrs and Confessors of Russia; the Russian source says, by an apparent slip, December.

He was born into a peasant family. He finished the parish church school. In 1908 he entered as a novice the Monastery of Saint Nicholas at Peshnosha, Dmitrov district, Moscow province. After in 1919 the right reverend Seraphim (Zvezdinsky) was appointed bishop of Dmitrov, the novice Alexander became his cell attendant and subdeacon. In 1920 he was tonsured a monk with the name Aristarchus and ordained hierodeacon. In 1926 he was ordained hieromonk. In 1931 he was sent to serve at the church in the village of Cherneevo, Dmitrov district, Moscow region.

On 24 September 1931 he was arrested and held in the Butyrka prison in Moscow, during a mass campaign of arrest of the inhabitants of dissolved monasteries. He was accused of demonstrative commemoration in church of the Russian tsars and of anti-⁠Soviet agitation. On 30 September and 7 November he was interrogated, but refused to sign the protocols. On 13 November 1931 the three-⁠man tribunal of the political police sentenced him to three years in a labour camp. On 17 November he was sent by transport as far as Lodeynoye Pole station, to the Svir labour camps.

He was arrested a second time in 1937, on a charge of anti-⁠Soviet agitation. To the investigator's questions and to the witnesses' statements read to him, he answered that he had carried on no anti-⁠Soviet activity among the people and did not confirm the statements read out. On 25 November the three-⁠man tribunal of the political police sentenced Father Aristarchus to death. He was shot on 27 November 1937 and buried in an unknown common grave.