Domna Vasilkova

Holy Martyr Domna Vasilkova was born in 1887 in the Minakovsk district of the Podolia province, in a peasant family, and worked her own land. She received the crown of martyrdom by shooting in 1942, in Kazakhstan. The Russian Church honours her among the New Martyrs and Confessors of the twentieth century.

In 1940 she was arrested and sentenced to three years in a corrective labour camp. In 1942, in the Akmolinsk section of the Karlag camp, where she was serving her sentence, Domna Efimovna was arrested again, in the same group case as Holy Venerable Martyr Evdokia Andrianova. On 20 April 1942 she was sentenced to death, and the sentence was carried out soon afterwards.

She was numbered among the saints of the New Martyrs and Confessors of Russia at the Jubilee Council of Bishops of the Russian Church in August 2000, for veneration throughout the Church. She is commemorated on 7 February, in the Synaxis of the New Martyrs and Confessors of the Russian Church (new style).