Alexy Lelchitsky, holy martyr

Father Alexy (Alexey Savelyevich Mogilnitsky) was born on October 17, 1870 in the city of Minsk in the family of the townspeople Savely and Herminia Fominichnaya Mogilnitsky. His father, a retired military man, was a provincial clerk. At the age of ten, Aleksey chooses the path of serving God and enters the Minsk Theological School, and then - the Minsk Theological Seminary.