Constantine Yurganov

Holy Hieromartyr Constantine Yurganov, a priest, was closely bound, in life and in martyrdom, to Father Ananias Aristov. Both were natives of the village of Serga, in the Perm district of the Perm province, and both were ordained priests for the Exaltation of the Cross church of their village. One may suppose that, peacefully and honestly, they would have served together to a ripe old age, guiding and nourishing spiritually their fellow villagers, but the harsh years of the revolution came.

Both priests were arrested on 16 June 1918. They spent four and a half months in prison, then were accused of counter-⁠revolutionary activity and sentenced to death. 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.

These new martyrs of Perm were glorified among the saints by the Council of Bishops of the Russian Orthodox Church on 20 August 2000. Saint Constantine is commemorated on 15 November, on 14 February, with the Synaxis of the Saints of the Perm Metropolis (the date moves), and on 7 February, with the Synaxis of the New Martyrs and Confessors of Russia, in the new style.