Presbyter
Saint Martyr Victor was born on April 17, 1872, in the village of Mineyevo, Dmitrov district of the Moscow province, in the family of priest Ioann Morigerovsky. He graduated from the Zaikonospassky Spiritual School in 1889 and the Vifanskaya Theological Seminary in 1896. In 1901, he was ordained as a priest to the Nikolskaya Church in the village of Cherlenkovo, Volokolamsk district.
In 1931, Father Victor was arrested on charges of refusing to fulfill state duties but was acquitted. In 1933, he was arrested again on charges of counter-revolutionary agitation and was sentenced to three years of exile in Kazakhstan. In June 1934, he returned home and continued his ministry in the Nikolsky Church.
On January 22, 1938, new persecutions against the Church began. Father Victor openly called on the faithful to assist arrested priests and spoke about the harsh conditions in which the clergy found themselves. On February 11, 1938, he was arrested and imprisoned in the Volokolamsk prison.
On February 27, the NKVD troika sentenced Father Victor and the laborer Irina Smirnova to death by shooting. They were executed on March 7, 1938, and buried in an unknown mass grave at the Butovo firing range near Moscow.
