“He that Endureth to the End Shall be Saved” (Matt.: 10:22)
October 30
Holy New Martyr Alexander Shchukin, Archbishop of Semipalatinsk, was killed on this day in 1937.
On the left, Bishop Alexander of Makar’ev
Archbishop Alexander was born as Ivan Vasilʹevich in 1891 into a clergy family in Porkhov, Pskov Region. Having graduated from an elementary school for clergy children, he went to seminary in Riga and then graduated fr…
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