Sergius Fenomenov

Holy Hieromartyr Sergius Fenomenov was an archpriest and military chaplain in Ust-⁠Kamenogorsk in Kazakhstan, and he was shot in 1918 before the eyes of his family.

Sergius Vasilievich Fenomenov served in the fortress church of Ust-⁠Kamenogorsk and was priest of the military garrison quartered in the fortress. In 1918, when the Bolsheviks briefly took power in the city, he was shot by them in front of his wife and three sons. This took place on Komendantsky Island, opposite the fortress, where the priest lived with his family. The body of the martyr was set under guard, and no one was allowed to approach it. After three days it was secretly taken away without the family's knowledge to an unknown place, and the place of his burial is not known.

The saint is commemorated on 16 September and, in the new style, on 7 February (a movable date) in the Synaxis of the New Martyrs and Confessors of the Russian Church.