Mihei Miziumschi

Mihei Miziumschi (1899-1941) was a priest in Bessarabia, shot by NKVD soldiers at the end of July 1941. He is venerated by the faithful as a martyr, without synodal canonization; the sources available to us are few.

According to a list of Bessarabian saints proposed for canonization, published in 2011, he was a worthy soldier of Christ and a man who put his life at the service of the Church. Knowing what the Soviets were capable of, he left the village and wandered in the forests and places nearby. At the end of July 1941, learning that the Soviet soldiers had withdrawn to Căușeni, he set out for home, but did not get to stay there, because someone denounced him, and NKVD soldiers came at once to his dwelling. They took him out of the house and shot him with five bullets in the back of the head.

The source counts him among the hundreds of priests killed in those years. We know of no synodal file; the source gives no details of his studies, parish or family.