St. Michael the new hiero-confessor

Michael Viktorov, born in 1871 in the village of Boloshnevo near Ryazan, served as an archpriest in the church of his native village, which his father had helped to build. Arrested in January 1930, he was sentenced by an OGPU troika to three years in the Solovetsky camp. He died there on 11 April 1933, when he had come to collect his release papers. He was canonized in 2006.