Benjamin of Petrograd

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Saint Benjamin of Petrograd
Benjamin (Kazansky), Metropolitan of Petrograd and Gdov
Hieromartyr
Born	29 April [O.S. 17 April] 1873 Olonets Governorate, Russian Empire
Died	13 August [O.S. 31 July] 1922 Kovalevsky Forest, Soviet Union
Venerated in	Eastern Orthodoxy
Canonized	4 April 1992, Danilov Monastery, Moscow, Russian Federation by Russian Orthodox Church
Major shrine	Nikolskoe Cemetery of the Alexander Nevsky Lavra
Feast	31 July Sunday on or following 25 January (the celebration of the Synaxis of the new Russian martyrs and confessors)[1]

Benjamin of Petrograd (Russian: Вениамин Петроградский, Veniamin Petrogradsky, 29 April [O.S. 17 April] 1873 – 13 August [O.S. 31 July] 1922), born Vasily Pavlovich Kazansky (Russian: Василий Павлович Казанский), was a hieromartyr under Soviet anti-religious persecution, a bishop in the Russian Orthodox Church and eventually Metropolitan of Petrograd and Gdov from 1917 to 1922. Due to his role in leading nonviolent resistance to Soviet anti-religious legislation, Metropolitan Benjamin was martyred following a drumhead show trial and executed by a firing squad of the Soviet secret police. In April 1992 Benjamin was glorified (canonized) by the Russian Orthodox Church together with several other martyrs, including Archimandrite Sergius (Shein), Professor Yury Novitsky, and John Kovsharov (a lawyer), who were executed alongside him.^[1]