Michael Viktorov

Saint Michael Ivanovich Viktorov, hieromartyr, was an archpriest in the diocese of Ryazan and died in the Solovki camp on 11 April 1933. The Russian Church canonized him in 2006, for veneration throughout the Church, at the proposal of the Ryazan diocese. He is commemorated on 29 March by the old calendar, which is 11 April by the new.

He was born in 1871 in the village of Boloshnevo in the Ryazan district, into the family of Archpriest John Viktorov. He graduated from the Ryazan theological seminary in 1894. He was then ordained for the church at Boloshnevo, built with the help of his father, who was its first rector. In this church Father Michael served until his arrest. The hieromartyr Leonid Viktorov was his nephew.

On 17 January 1930 he was arrested and, by sentence of an OGPU troika, condemned under article 58-10 to three years in a camp, to be served in the Solovki Special Purpose Camp. There he died three years later, on 11 April 1933, having come to collect his release certificate.