Efrosiniya Moftieva

The nun Euphrosyne (Efrosiniya) Moftieva († 1876) was one of the nuns of the Holy Trinity convent at Novo Selo (today Apriltsi), killed by the Turks on 9 May 1876 in the monastery church. She was canonized as a holy martyr by the Bulgarian Orthodox Church on 3 April 2011; she is commemorated on 26 April (9 May by the new calendar), together with the other martyrs of Novo Selo.

The memory of those who lived then is not preserved in detail, but the grace of their martyrdom is, says the Life, like an unseen light above the earth, and the martyrs help even without being named those who are in need. On the day of the massacre of 9 May 1876 the nuns, who had spent their days helping the insurgents with food and clothing, took refuge in the church; the Turks fired through the windows, entered and cut down those found inside, among them the abbess Susana, six nuns, Euphrosyne among them, and one laywoman. Their relics are today in the monastery church.