"They offered me to save my life by renouncing God and the priesthood"

"From prison, Priest Valerian wrote this message to his wife, 'They offered me to save my life by renouncing God and the priesthood. I refused. How will you manage to raise our children alone?' She responded, 'Do not renounce God or the priesthood. The Lord will help me.' This is the last conversation between Priest Valerian Novitsky and his wife, Dominika Ignatievna…On February 23 of the same year [1930], he was executed." https://obitel-minsk.org/en/faithful-to-christ-hieromartyr-valerian-novitsky