St. Vasily Kolosov

Commemorated on May 9

      After graduating from the Ryazan Theological Seminary in 1915, Vasily Alekseevich served as a psalmist at the Vvedensky Church in the Podlesnaya Sloboda village of the Lukhovitsky District of the Moscow Region until 1927, and in 1927 was ordained a priest to this church. The first time of his ministry he often spoke in the church sermon, but soon he was informed that some of his sermons were interpreted as anti-Soviet, and he fell silent. On March 3, 1930, the OGPU Collegium sentenced Father Vasily to five years of imprisonment in a concentration camp for anti-Soviet agitation. In 1934, Father Vasily returned from his detention home and was sent to serve in the Transfiguration Church in the village of Strupna, Zaraisk district, where he served until the beginning of a new persecution of the Church. Father Vasily was arrested on September 27, 1937 and imprisoned in one of the prisons of the Kolomna district. After the interrogation of the priest, false witnesses were summoned who signed the relevant testimony, and on 3 October the investigation was completed. On October 13, 1937, the NKVD troika sentenced Father Vasily to ten years in prison, and he was sent to Bamlag. In 1939, Father Vasily was transferred to a camp in the Sverdlovsk region, which became the place of his last sufferings. Priest Vasily Kolosov died in custody on May 22, 1939 and was buried in an unknown grave.

Source: http://www.luhovici-hram.ru/novosti-blagochiniya/1030-nikolopod