Presbyter
Father Mikhail Mikhailovich Lisitsyn was born on October 19, 1862, in the village of Ekshur, Ryazan district of Ryazan province, in the family of a priest. After graduating from the Ryazan Theological Seminary in 1883, he began his service as a teacher at the rural Zadne-Pilev school. In 1885, he was ordained as a deacon, then as a priest, and assigned to the Trinity Church of the village of Katino. In 1895, he arrived in the Vladikavkaz diocese, where he served in the Kislovodsk stanitsa. His activities were noted by the Holy Synod, which awarded him a Bible 'for his zealous labors and care for the education of children.' In 1907, he moved to the Stavropol diocese, becoming the third priest in the village of Alexandrovsk, and in 1912, he was appointed to the Nikolai Church of the Ust-Labinsk stanitsa.
On February 22, 1918, he was arrested, and on February 26, he was killed. It is known that he was tortured for three days. When the body was found, it had more than ten wounds, and the head was mutilated. The Red Army soldiers forbade his burial, but the widow of Father Mikhail managed to buy the body for burial.
On May 4, 2017, the Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church made the decision to include the name of Priest Mikhail Lisitsyn in the Assembly of New Martyrs and Confessors of the Russian Church, with the commemoration taking place on March 11 (February 26).
