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Prophet Ahijah the Shilonite
Sinaxarion

Hieromartyr

Vasily Agatitsky

A hieromartyr of the Russian Church who gave his life for Christ in 1918.

Feast
October 4old style October 17
Reposed
191820th century
Order
Martyrs

Life

Holy Hieromartyr Vasily Agatitsky was a priest at the Holy Trinity Cathedral in Tetyushi and was killed in October 1918, in the persecution at the beginning of Soviet power.

He was born in 1880 and graduated from the theological seminary in the second category. He was a priest from 1902 and a teacher of religion at the school. At the assembly of the clergy of the Kazan eparchy in June 1918 (old style) he was a deputy of the Tetyushi district and was elected chairman of the administrative commission. On 4 October 1918 he was killed.

He is honoured in the Synaxis of the Saints of Kazan, on 4 October by the old calendar (17 October by the new).

Commemorated the same day October 4