Holy Martyr Theodore was born on September 18, 1868, in the village of Verkhny Shaksher, Pentegzhskaya volost, Cherdynsky district, Perm province. In 1887, he graduated from the Blagoveshchensk Teacher's Seminary and began teaching. On March 10, 1896, he was ordained as a deacon, and on May 9, 1903, he was ordained as a priest for the church in the village of Sylvino-Troitskoye. From 1908, he became the rector of this church. In 1914, by the order of Bishop Andronicus of Perm and Solikamsk, he was appointed a member of the diocesan council.
Holy Martyr Nicholas was born on January 12, 1872, in the family of the nobleman Arthur Matsiievsky. In 1891, he completed the first course of the Kazan Theological Seminary and became a psalmist at the Sergiev Church in the village of Sungurova. On September 21, 1897, he was ordained as a deacon. In 1902, he moved to the Perm diocese and on September 15 of the same year was ordained as a priest for the Golubyatskaya Church. In 1916, he was appointed to the Christ the Savior Church in the village of Yum.
Priests Theodore Antipin and Nicholas Matsiievsky were shot on January 24, 1919, by godless Bolsheviks.
