Michael Vologodsky

Michael Vologodsky was a priest in the village of Aginskoye in the Krasnoyarsk region, and met his death as a hieromartyr in 1920, on the feast of the Protection of the Mother of God. He was canonized by the Bishops' Council of the Russian Church in August 2000.

He was born on 1 October 1888 in the village of Chervyanskoye in Yenisei province, into the family of the priest George Vologodsky. He graduated from the church school and the Krasnoyarsk seminary (1911), married Agnia, daughter of the priest Smaragd Tyzhnov, and was ordained a priest on 18 August 1911, for the church of the Archangel Gabriel at Vershino-⁠Rybinskoye. Later he served at Aginskoye.

On 14 October 1920, after the service, as he came out of the church, he was seized by representatives of the new godless authority, taken outside the village, subjected to terrible torments and shot. His widow, left with three small children, lived until 1966. His two sons died at the front in the Great Patriotic War: Anatoly in 1942 and Viktor in 1944. The saint is commemorated on 14 October, new style, in the Synaxis of the Saints of the Krasnoyarsk Metropolis (11 June) and in the Synaxis of the New Martyrs and Confessors of the Russian Church.