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Icon of St. Alexis of Ugine,
Priest, Confessor
Feast: July 20
After
serving as parish priest of a small town near St. Petersburg, St.
Alexis was taken by Bolsheviks in 1918 but escaped the firing squad and
made his way to Estonia. Later arriving in France, he served as parish
priest of a small town in Savoy (Ugine), where he lived an ascetic and
prayerful life. In 1956, when his relics were exhumed, they were found
to be incorrupt. In 2004 he was glorified as a Saint by the Oecuemnical
Patriarchate at the same time as four other Russo-French Saints, Mother
Maria Skobtsova, Fr. Demetrius Klepinin, Elias Fondaminsky, and George
(Yuri) Skobtsov. Holy Father Alexis, pray to God for us!
Top
Icon: by the hand of Maria Struve.
Bottom Icon: of unknown
provenance.
Beneath
the icons are shown (a) a photograph of the Saint, and (b) the tomb of
the Saint.
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