Basil Amenitsky

Holy Hieromartyr Basil Amenitsky, a priest, by his full name Basil Alexeevich Amenitsky, was born on 19 February 1872 in the village of Moshok, Sudogda district, Vladimir province, in the family of a Polish priest. After four classes of seminary he was a choir director in a church of the Vyazniki district, married, was ordained deacon in 1902 and priest in February 1909. He served first in the Kovrov district, then in the village of Biberevo. In February 1930 his family was dispossessed as "kulaks", and he spent a month in the prison at Pereslavl-⁠Zalessky. From April 1930 he was among the clergy of the Trinity church in the village of Efimyevo.

On 17 October 1937 he was arrested and held in Yaroslavl, accused of "forming a church monarchist organization... the breakup of collective farms". He did not admit guilt. On 28 October 1937 the NKVD troika of Yaroslavl region sentenced him to ten years of corrective labour. He served his sentence in the Baikal-⁠Amur camp, where he died on 20 August 1938. He was glorified by the Jubilee Council of Bishops of the Russian Orthodox Church in the year 2000.

He is commemorated on 20 August, on 7 February (a movable date) in the Synaxis of the New Martyrs and Confessors of the Russian Church, and on 5 June in the Synaxis of the Saints of Rostov and Yaroslavl, all in the new style.