Nicholas Matsievsky

Holy Hieromartyr Nicholas Matsievsky was a priest in the village of Yum, in the Perm province, and was shot by the Bolsheviks on 24 January 1919, together with the priest Theodore Antipin.

Nicholas Matsievsky

He was born on 12 January 1872, in the family of the nobleman Arthur Matsievsky. In 1891 he finished the first year at the Kazan seminary and received a teacher's diploma, with the right to teach in a primary school. In the same year he passed the examination for reader and was named reader at the church of Saint Sergius in the village of Sungurovo, in the Kazan district. On 21 September 1897 he was ordained deacon. On 30 August 1902 he moved to the Perm diocese and on 15 September was ordained priest for the church at Golubyatka, in the Perm district, being named also head of the parish school. In 1907 he was moved to the church at Osipovo-⁠Klyuchevskaya, in the Osa district, in 1911 to the church of Saints Peter and Paul in the village of Opachevskoye, and in 1916 to the church of the Nativity of Christ in the village of Yum, in the Cherdyn district.

Theodore Antipin

Theodore Vasilievich Antipin was born on 18 September 1868 in the village of Upper Shakshar in the Pentezh volost, Cherdyn district, in the family of the peasant Basil Antipin. In 1887 he finished the Annunciation teachers' seminary and taught in schools of the Okhansk district. On 10 March 1896 he was ordained deacon for the church in the village of Sylvino-⁠Troitskoye, and on 9 May 1903 priest for the same church, of which he was named rector on 11 March 1908. From 1906 he was teacher of religion at the parish school at Zhebreyeva. In 1909 he was named rector of the church of the Nativity of Christ in the village of Yum. Between 1910 and 1914 he was dean of the second Cherdyn district, and in 1914 he was named by Bishop Andronicus member of the deanery council.

The priests Theodore Antipin and Nicholas Matsievsky were shot by the Bolsheviks on 24 January 1919.

They are remembered on 24 January, on 14 February (a movable day) in the Synaxis of the Saints of the Perm Metropolis, and on 7 February (a movable day) in the Synaxis of the New Martyrs and Confessors, in the new style.