Flegont Pongilski

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Flegont Nikolayevich Pongilski (born March 28, 1871 in Kariajevo, Uglic Province of Jarosław, died April 23, 1938) is a Russian Orthodox priest, holy newcomer. Curriculum vitae

He was the son of an Orthodox priest. He graduated from junior high school in Jarosław and for some time worked as a teacher. As a married man, he was ordained as a married man at the latest in 1905; From this year he is mentioned as a minister in Yaroslav. Until 1918 he was also a Chaplain of the 166th Galician Regiment.

Arrested in 1929 in Ivanovo (according to another source - in Jaroslaw), in the following year he was accused of conducting anti-Soviet agitation and sentenced to three years in exile to the North. According to the investigative materials, the Soviet Patriarchate of Sergius issued a declaration of loyalty to the Russian Orthodox Church to the Soviet authorities and took part in clerical meetings with similar convictions.

In exile he stayed from 1930 to 1932. After his death he settled in Pietuszki near Moscow. In 1936 he worked at the railway station in Chrapunow as a weight watcher, and in the following year he was a watchman. At the same time he continued his pastoral activity as a priest and regent of the church choir. Arrested in 1937 in Pietuszki, he was charged with conducting counter-revolutionary agitation and sentenced to ten years in prison. He did not confess guilt. He died in the next year in the camp, maybe shot.

In 2000, he was canonized as one of the Council of Saints, the New Testaments and the Russian Confessors. The day of his memorial is the date of the memorial of the Council and the anniversary of death.

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