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Thursday, November 12
Prophet Ahijah the Shilonite
Sinaxarion

Martyr

Euphrosyne Dzhurinskaya

A Russian woman who died a martyr for her faith in Christ during the communist persecution.

Feast
December 9old style December 22
Reposed
192020th century
Order
Martyrs

Life

Holy Martyr Euphrosyne Dzhurinskaya, born Euphrosyne Adamovna Dzhurinskaya in 1888, was the wife of Archpriest Vladimir Dzhurinsky and was shot in 1920, together with her husband, at Verny, today Almaty. The Russian Church honours her among the New Martyrs and Confessors.

Archpriest Vladimir Dzhurinsky was born in 1885 and served in the village of Sergeevka in the Kastek district of the Semirechye region, as rector of the church. His wife worked in the same village as a teacher at the parish school. In 1920 Father Vladimir and his wife were shot at Verny.

She is commemorated on 22 December and on 7 February in the Synaxis of the New Martyrs and Confessors of the Russian Church (new style).

Commemorated the same day December 9