Euphrosyne Timofeeva

Holy New Martyr Euphrosyne Timofeeva was a novice of Alexeyevsky Convent in Moscow and died in 1942, after years of arrest and exile. Newer sources also call her Antonia.

She was born in 1883 (by some accounts in 1881) in the village of Gryaznoe, in the Gzhatsk district of the Smolensk province, in a peasant family. Soviet forms listed her as "barely literate". In 1903 she entered Alexeyevsky Convent in Moscow as a novice. After the convent was closed she stayed on in its buildings with her sister and lived by sewing quilts.

At the end of December 1930 she was arrested on a charge of "anti-⁠Soviet agitation" and held in Butyrka prison. At her interrogation, as the record preserves, she said that she could respect an authority that does not mock believers. On 3 January 1931 the OGPU Special Council sentenced her to three years of exile in Kazakhstan. Little is known of the following years: she passed away on 5 November 1942, probably shot.

The Holy Synod of the Russian Church numbered her among the saints on 6 October 2006. She is commemorated on 5 November, on 8 December in the Synaxis of the New Martyrs of Smolensk, in the Synaxis of the Saints of Moscow and on the movable day of the Synaxis of the New Martyrs.