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Thursday, November 12
Prophet Ahijah the Shilonite
Sinaxarion

Venerable Martyr

Evdokia Buchineva

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

Feast
January 25old style February 7
Era
before 2000
Order
Martyrs

Life

Holy Venerable Martyr Evdokia Buchineva was a nun (in the Russian sources called an inoking) and is honoured among the New Martyrs and Confessors of the Russian Church. Her commemoration is kept together with the venerable confessor Athanasia Lepeshkina.

The sources gathered here contain no data about her life. She is commemorated on 25 January, old style, that is 7 February in the new style, in the Synaxis of the New Martyrs and Confessors of the Russian Church, and on 5 September in the Synaxis of the Saints of Moscow.

Commemorated the same day January 25