Demetrius Nevedomsky

Holy Hieromartyr Demetrius Nevedomsky, a priest, was born on 4 September 1882 in Tver, in the family of an official of the zemstvo district board, and died in a camp on 17 December 1937. He is commemorated on 17 December, on 7 February, in the Synaxis of the New Martyrs and Confessors of the Russian Church, and on 18 July, in the Synaxis of the Saints of Tver.

In 1902 he finished the seminary in Tver and worked as a teacher and psalm-⁠reader. In 1906 he married and soon received priestly rank. In 1936 he was rewarded with the rank of archpriest, for almost thirty years of zealous and fruitful service. On 6 December 1936 Archpriest Demetrius Nevedomsky was arrested, accused of counter-⁠revolutionary anti-⁠Soviet agitation. During the investigation he had to endure three interrogations and a confrontation. He was charged with taking part in the Florovo uprising of 1918, although in the protocol of the commission of the Yaroslavl court it was written: in 1918 he did not take part in the uprising. But Father Demetrius had never engaged in anti-⁠state activity and categorically rejected the charge. He bore himself bravely and firmly; the hand that signed the interrogation protocols never once trembled. On 19 February 1937 the sentence was given: six years of deprivation of freedom and five years of loss of rights. Archpriest Demetrius was sent to a labour camp and from there did not return: he died in detention, on 17 December 1937.