St. Seraphim Chichagov

Leonid Chichagov was a decorated artillery officer, doctor and painter who became a priest and then a monk. He organised the glorification of St. Seraphim of Sarov in 1903 and painted his icon. As Metropolitan of Leningrad he was arrested in 1937, carried to his execution on a stretcher at 81, and shot at the Butovo firing range near Moscow, where more than a thousand clergy and believers were killed.

• Feast: November 28 (New Calendar)
• Lived: 1856–1937
• Place: Butovo, Moscow