New Hieromartyr Andronicus Surikov

Andronicus (Surikov) was a Russian hieromonk who died in a Soviet labor camp in 1938 and is numbered among the Synaxis of New Martyrs and Confessors of the Russian Church. He is commemorated on September 9. Sources record little of his life beyond its monastic outline and its end in the persecution of the Church under the Soviet state.

By the account of Russian hagiographic sources, he was born Andrei Ivanovich Surikov on October 5, 1885, in the village of Ogryzkovo in the Volokolamsk district of Moscow province, into a peasant family, and received his early schooling at a village school. He entered the Luzhetsky (Ferapontov) Monastery at Mozhaisk as a novice, where he served as a choir singer, and in time was tonsured a monk and ordained. In 1916 he was conscripted into the army, and in 1918 he was mobilized into the rear militia.