Martyr
Elizabeth Samovskaya
A woman martyr of the Nizhny Novgorod eparchy, killed for the faith in 1937.
- Reposed
- 193720th century
- Place
- Nizhny Novgorod Eparchy
- Order
- Martyrs
Life
Holy Martyr Elizabeth Samovskaya is entered in the list of new martyrs and confessors of the Nizhny Novgorod eparchy, and the list shows no church rank for her. She was born in 1860 and died for the faith in 1937. She was counted among the saints, as a new martyr and confessor of the Russian Church, by the Council of Bishops of the year 2000. She is also entered in the list of the Synaxis of the Saints of Nizhny Novgorod.