Venerable Martyr Nicanor

Nikanor (Nikifor Morozkin), born in 1870 in a village of the Ryazan province, was an archimandrite in Moscow. From 1920 he looked after the Iveron chapel at the Resurrection Gate, and from 1923 to 1932 he was abbot of the Nikolo-Perervinsky Monastery. Later he served at the Transfiguration church in Spas-Ostashevo. Arrested in 1938, he was sentenced to death and shot on 1 July 1938 at the Butovo firing range near Moscow, during the Great Terror. The Russian Church canonized him in 2005.