(1879 - 1937) – Priest, Holy Martyr
Commemoration on August 4 (July 22 O.S.) in the Assembly of New Martyrs and Confessors of the Russian Church.
Holy Martyr Mikhail was born in 1879 in the Nizhny Novgorod province. After graduating from the Theological Seminary, he was ordained as a priest.
During the persecutions against the Russian Orthodox Church under Soviet rule, Father Mikhail served in the St. Nicholas Church in the city of Petropavlovsk, Kazakhstan.
On November 8, 1937, he was arrested by the authorities, accused of counter-revolutionary activities. During interrogation, Father Mikhail, answering the investigator's questions, said: "I have never been involved in anything. I cannot show anything on this matter. I do not plead guilty to conducting counter-revolutionary activities."
On November 14, 1937, the NKVD troika sentenced Priest Mikhail Myakishev to execution, and he was subsequently shot and buried in an unmarked common grave.
Canonized as a saint of the New Martyrs and Confessors of Russia by the Bishops' Council of the Russian Orthodox Church in August 2000 for general church veneration.
Saints of Kazakhstan
