Macarius Solovyov

Holy Hieromartyr Macarius Solovyov, a priest, was born in 1876 in the village of Skornevo in the Maksatikha district of the Tver region, with the full name Macarius Arsenievich Solovyov. Of the years from his childhood to his first arrest almost nothing is known; it is known only that he chose the spiritual path and was ordained a priest.

On 16 August 1930 the authorities arrested him in the village of Dmitrievskoe in the Likhoslavl district. The charge, as in many trials of Church servants in those years, was that of article 58-10: "propaganda or agitation calling for the overthrow, undermining or weakening of Soviet power". The trial lasted less than a month, and on 10 September he was sentenced to three years of exile.

On 13 November 1937 came a second arrest, the last. After fourteen days, on 27 November, the NKVD troika of the Kalinin region sentenced him, on a charge of "anti-⁠Soviet agitation", to the supreme penalty, shooting. On 29 November 1937 the priest Macarius Solovyov was granted the crown of martyrdom.

He is commemorated on 29 November, the day of his death, in the new style, on the movable day near 7 February in the Synaxis of the New Martyrs and Confessors of the Russian Church and on the movable day near 18 July in the Synaxis of the Saints of Tver.