Sergius Galkovsky

Holy New Martyr Sergius Galkovsky was a hieromonk professed at Valaam Monastery who was killed in the years of the revolution; the Russian Church counts him among the venerable martyrs of Valaam.

Born Ivan Galkovsky in the province of Vitebsk, he was received as a novice at the Transfiguration Monastery of Valaam on 11 March 1908 and tonsured a monk with the name Sergius on 23 December 1910. Until 1911 his obedience was fishing; then he was moved to the Nosovo Transfiguration Monastery in the village of Tugolovka, in the Borisoglebsk district of the Tambov province, where he was ordained hieromonk. According to azbyka and the Orthodox Encyclopedia he was cruelly killed in 1917; the list of the new martyrs gives the year 1918.

The Council of Bishops of the Russian Church canonized him on 27 December 2000. He is commemorated on 20 December (7 December by the old calendar), in the Synaxis of the Saints of Valaam, in the Synaxis of the Saints of the Tambov Metropolis (10 August) and on the movable day of the Synaxis of the New Martyrs.