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Icon of St. Alexander
Hotovitsky, Priest of New York, New-Martyr of Russia + 1937
Feast: December 4
Born in the Russian Empire, St. Alexander was
a missionary in New York and the northeastern United States and a
parish presbyter in Finland, Russia, and the Soviet Union, where he
died in 1937 in a concentration camp as a victim of communist religious
persecution.
Top Icon: by the hand of Michael
Garrett, from a church in the OCA.
Next Icon: by the hand of Xenia
Pokrovskaya. The inscription actually belongs to the figure to the left
of St. Alexander.
Next Icon: by the hand of Xenia
Pokrovskaya. The martyrdom of St. Alexander and the destruction by
dynamite of the great Cathedral of Christ the Saviour in Moscow.
Last
Icon: detail from a larger icon of the Saint, of unknown provenance.
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