Presbyter
Dmitry Pavlovich Voznesensky was born in 1855 in the village of Nikolo-Zamoshye. In 1877, he graduated from the Yaroslavl Theological Seminary and became a parish psalmist in his native church. Later, he was elevated to the rank of deacon, and in 1910, he became a priest. In 1918, during the revolution, an uprising against the Soviet authority broke out in Nikolo-Zamoshye. On October 16, at the request of the rebels, a cross procession and a prayer service were held, after which Father Dmitry delivered a sermon denouncing the godless plans of the Bolsheviks. The next day, a punitive detachment arrived and dispersed the rebels. During the liturgy, a Red Guard attempted to shoot Father Dmitry, but the rifle malfunctioned. After the service, the priest was arrested and mockingly taken to the railway station Shestikhino, where he was executed in the night from October 17 to 18, 1918. Priest Dmitry was canonized by the Council of Bishops of the Russian Orthodox Church in 2000.
