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Anatoly Chistousov

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Captivity and Martyr Death
== Captivity and Martyr Death ==
On January 29th, 1996, during the First Chechen war, he together with together with archpriest Sergius Zhigulin (now Igumen Phillip) from External Church Relations Department were going to meet with Brigadier General Akhmed Zakayev to negotiate the release of a soldier of the Federal Forces from chechen captivity, however on the way to the Chechen capital from Urus-Martan, after negotiations they were captured by the armed group under Doku Makhayev's command themselves and were placed in a concentration camp of so-called «Department of state security of the Chechen republic Ichkeria».
On the end of first days of the captivity the prisoners under the offer of Father Anatoly made the Eucharist with available for them bread, consecrating it with their prayers to Body of Christ so that to have possibility to partake further.
During the period, when a destiny of fr. Anatoly remained unknown, the Church hierarchy undertook attempts of liberating the abducted priest, as well as and other clergymen and the children of Church captivated in the Chechnya. Sometimes prisoners eventually found freedom, in other cases, to a regret, they was executed by gangsters and reposed in settlements of the righteous<ref>[http://www.mospat.ru/archive/nr004261.htm Priest Anatoly Chistousov took a martyr end in the chechen captivity]</ref>.
Remains of father Anatoly were exhumated just in July, 2003 in mountains near Old Achkhoy<ref>[http://www. tserkov.info/numbers/charity/?ID=599 Подведены итоги благотворительной акции в помощь семье священика Анатолия Чистоусова]</ref> Now he has been buried on the Stavropol cemetry. His tomb is on territory of the cemetry chapel.
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