Elizabeth Yarygina

Holy Venerable Martyr Elizabeth Yarygina, a nun, in the world Elizabeth Alexandrovna Yarygina, was born in 1879 in the village of Safronovo in the Yarensk district of the Vologda province, today in the Arkhangelsk region, in a peasant family. She received the crown of martyrdom by shooting on 12 September 1937, near Syktyvkar, in the Komi Republic.

She entered the Kyltovo Exaltation of the Cross convent in the Yarensk district as a novice, and in 1918 was tonsured a nun. After the closing of the convent she served as psalm-⁠reader at the Meeting of the Lord church in the village of Vylgort, Syktyvdin district, in the Komi Republic. On 4 August 1937 Mother Elizabeth was arrested, accused of active counter-⁠revolutionary activity and of spreading rumours about the imminent collapse of collective farm building and Soviet power. She did not admit guilt. The NKVD troika of the Komi A.S.S.R. sentenced her to the highest penalty, and on 12 September 1937 she was shot near Syktyvkar.

She was numbered among the saints by decision of the Holy Synod of the Russian Church of 6 October 2001. She is commemorated on 12 September, on 7 February in the Synaxis of the New Martyrs and Confessors of the Russian Church (new style), on 11 February in the Synaxis of the Saints of Komi, and on 1 November in the Synaxis of the Saints of the Arkhangelsk Metropolis.