Vyacheslav Zakedsky

Holy Hieromartyr Vyacheslav Zakedsky was a priest of the prison church in Rybinsk and died in August 1918, cruelly wounded during the suppression of the Yaroslavl uprising.

He was born in 1879 in the family of a priest. He graduated from the Yaroslavl seminary in 1900 and was a teacher at the parish school in Tolgobol near Yaroslavl. He married Nadezhda Mitrofanovna Solontsova, daughter of the deacon of the Transfiguration cathedral of Rybinsk, Mitrofan Solontsov, of an old priestly line. On 21 January 1901 he was ordained deacon at the cathedral of Rybinsk and appointed teacher of religion at the cathedral school, and from 1909 also at the eighth primary school. On the twenty-⁠fifth anniversary of the parish schools he was given a medal. In May 1917 he was moved to the prison church of Rybinsk and ordained priest. It seems that there, in the night of 10/23 August 1918, during the suppression of the Yaroslavl uprising, he was fiercely wounded and died soon after. He was buried at the city cemetery, beside the church of Saint Tikhon of Zadonsk.

On 26 December 2001, at the request of the Yaroslavl diocese, the Holy Synod of the Russian Church decreed his canonization. The saint is commemorated on 5 September and, in the new style, on 7 February (movable) in the Synaxis of the New Martyrs and Confessors of the Russian Church and on 5 June in the Synaxis of the Saints of Rostov and Yaroslavl.