Memory of the Hieromartyr Alexy (Nikonov) in the Zaraisk districttranslated

October 29 in the Transfiguration Church. Spas-Doschaty m.o. Zaraysk honored the memory of Hieromartyr Alexy (Nikonov), the last rector of the Transfiguration Church during the days of the persecution of the Church. The festive Divine Liturgy, which ended with a procession around the church, was performed by the rector of the church, Priest Andrei Spiridonov, co-served by the rector of the Kazan Church in Zaraysk, Priest Sergius Grebeshkov. After the service, lunch was organized for the clergy and parishioners in the refectory of the church. Father Alexy graduated from the Moscow Theological Academy in 1910. In 1922 he was ordained a priest and served in the Assumption Church in the town of Klin near Moscow. On September 26, 1924, Father Alexy was arrested on charges of anti-Soviet propaganda and sentenced to deportation to the Narym region for two years. After serving his sentence, Father Alexy began to serve in the Transfiguration Church in the village. Spas-Doschaty, trying to strictly fulfill the liturgical regulations, showing himself in everything to be a devoted shepherd of the Church of Christ. In February 1930, following a slanderous denunciation by Fr. Alexy was arrested again.

The guilt was formulated as follows: “...In 1927, having received a position in the church in the village of Spas-Doshchaty, he again led counter-revolutionary agitation among the population by...