Presbyter
Saint Martyr Anatoly Levitsky was born in 1894 in a settlement near the Votkinsk factory in the Vyatka province in a priestly family. He received his education at the Vyatka Theological Seminary, after which he was ordained to the priesthood. In 1933, Father Anatoly was arrested and sentenced to 5 years in a correctional labor camp, serving his sentence in the Novoiavlensky section of the Siblag. On September 30, 1937, he was arrested again in the camp along with Bishop Paul and other clergymen, accused of “counter-revolutionary agitation.” On October 28, 1937, the troika of the USSR NKVD sentenced Priest Anatoly Levitsky to the highest measure of punishment, and on November 3, he was executed by shooting. He was glorified in the rank of saints at the Jubilee Archpastoral Council of the Russian Orthodox Church in 2000.
