Presbyter
Saint Martyr Michael was born in 1869 in the village of Pyatigory, Cherdyn district, Perm province, in the family of priest Photiy Denisov. Father Michael died when he was four years old. In 1888, he graduated from three classes of the Perm Theological Seminary and began serving as a psalmist in the Transfiguration Church of the village of Yuksevo. In 1893, he was sent to the Transfiguration Church of the village of Ust-Kosva, and in 1894 – to the Alexander Nevsky Church of the village of Yusva. On August 10, 1897, he was ordained a deacon at the Alexievsky Church of the village of Egva and appointed teacher and lawgiver of the literacy school of the Egvin parish. In 1900, Michael was transferred to the Exaltation of the Holy Cross Church of the village of Bonyug and in 1901 appointed teacher of the zemstvo school. In 1904, he was transferred to the Exaltation of the Holy Cross Church of the village of Sylvinskoye and appointed lawgiver of the parish school. In 1911, he was ordained a priest at the same church and appointed lawgiver at the Zavodo-Chusovskaya zemstvo school. In 1912, Father Michael was transferred to the Ilyinsky Church of the village of Levino and appointed head and lawgiver of the Levinskaya parish school. In 1913, he became one of the spiritual fathers of the 2nd deanery of the Okhansk district. The last place of his service was the George Church in the village of Pyatigory, where his father once served. Priest Michael Denisov was shot by the Bolsheviks in September 1918.
