Venerable Martyr
Macarius Mironov
A monastic martyr of the Russian Church, commemorated in the Orthodox calendar.
- Feast
- December 23old style January 5
- Reposed
- 193820th century
- Order
- Martyrs
Life
Holy Venerable Martyr Macarius Mironov, a hieromonk, was born in 1878 in the village of Filino in the Dorogobuzh district. On 21 December 1937 he was arrested in the village of Zavidovskaya Gorka in the Kesovogorsk district of the Kalinin region. On 30 December of the same year the NKVD troika of the Kalinin region sentenced him to death by shooting, on a charge of "anti-Soviet activity". The hieromonk Macarius received a martyr's end on 5 January 1938.
He is commemorated on 5 January, the day of his death, in the new style, on the movable day near 7 February in the Synaxis of the New Martyrs and Confessors of the Russian Church, and on the movable day near 18 July in the Synaxis of the Saints of Tver.
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