2/13/2017
Elena Balashova
Holy Confessor Matrona of Diveyevo spent seventeen years altogether in prison camps.
Rating: 9.5|Votes: 63
On September 17, 1918, a three-man presidium of the Department for Combating Counter-Revolution sentenced Archpriest Neophyte to death. The 72-year-old priest was shot and buried beyond the fence of the Kalitnikovskoe Cemetery on the same day.
Rating: 6.5|Votes: 11
A metropolitan, a bishop, rural priests, Diveyevo nuns, a “fool-for-Christ” and her cell attendants… They suffered for Christ in different ways, but all stood firmly in their faith. And it was Diveyevo Convent that connected all of them.
