Presbyter
Father Dmitry Voskresensky was born on September 7, 1869, in the village of Urusovo, Alatyr district, Simbirsk province. In 1875, when he was 6 years old, his mother died during childbirth. His father Vasily, also a priest, died in 1907 from typhus. In 1891, Dmitry graduated from the Simbirsk Theological Seminary and became a teacher at a parish school. He was ordained a priest in 1895 and served in various parishes, including 26 years in the village of Anastasovo. In the 1930s, he was arrested and interrogated by the NKVD. In 1934, he was subjected to a penalty for 'illegal conduct of prayers,' but his appeal to the Commission on Religious Affairs led to the cancellation of the penalty decision. On October 21, 1937, he was arrested and imprisoned in Alatyr prison. On December 30, 1937, Father Dmitry was sentenced to 10 years of imprisonment in a labor camp. On May 22, 1938, on the feast of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker, he passed away from heart failure and was buried in an unmarked grave. Father Dmitry was canonized among the new martyrs and confessors of Russia at the meeting of the Holy Synod on December 27, 2007.
