Presbyter
Saint Vikenity was born in 1881 in the village of Zasimenye, Klin district of Moscow province. He received his education at the Theological Seminary and was ordained as a priest. In 1930, he was appointed as the rector of the church in the town of Khimki. On October 26, 1937, he was arrested and imprisoned in a cell at the Krasnogorsk District Department of Internal Affairs. False witnesses accused him of counter-revolutionary agitation. To all questions, he replied that he had not engaged in conversations against the Soviet government. On November 14, 1937, the NKVD troika sentenced him to execution. Priest Vikenity was shot on November 16, 1937, and buried in an anonymous mass grave at the Butovo firing range near Moscow. His wife, Yevdokiya Ivanovna, was told that her husband had been sentenced to many years of imprisonment. She requested a review of her husband's case, but received no response.
