Michael Belorossov

Holy Hieromartyr Michael Belorossov, a priest, was born on 11 May 1869 in the town of Romanov-⁠Borisoglebsk in Yaroslavl province (now Tutaev), to the deacon Pavel Belorossov. In 1890 he graduated from the Yaroslavl theological seminary and served as a reader at the church of Saint Nicholas in Melenki, in Yaroslavl. In January 1893 he was ordained a priest for the church of the village of Kardino in the Romanov-⁠Borisoglebsk district, and was appointed manager and teacher of religion of the village literacy school, as well as catechist of the church.

In August 1896 Father Michael was transferred to the church of the Resurrection of Christ in Romanov-⁠Borisoglebsk, where he served for more than twenty years and held many obediences in teaching: he was teacher of religion at the town primary school, at the lower trade school, at the school of the flax mill, at the Sunday school there and at the courses for adults, catechist at the Resurrection church and, besides this, a permanent member and treasurer of the district branch of the diocesan school council and a helper in the relief of poor clergy families.

After the godless came to power, the Resurrection church was closed in 1919, and in 1920 the priest decided to move with his family to relatives in Yaroslavl. His wife went first with the children, then Father Michael. On the road between Romanov-⁠Borisoglebsk and Yaroslavl he was arrested by the local Communists as a priest, accused of taking part in a counter-⁠revolutionary plot and shot. The page does not give the exact date of his death.

He is commemorated on 14 February, in the new style, with the Synaxis of the New Martyrs and Confessors of the Russian Church (a movable day) and, on 5 June, with the Synaxis of the Saints of Rostov and Yaroslavl.