Helen Florovskaya

Holy Venerable Helen Florovskaya was a nun of the Florovsky Convent in Kyiv and passed away in 1834. She is honoured as a local saint and belongs to the Synaxis of the Venerable Women of Kyiv.

Born Ekaterina Alekseevna Bekhteeva, she was born in 1756 in the Voronezh province, into a rich and noble family of baptized Tatar descent. She is said to have been a disciple of Saint Tikhon of Zadonsk. She was tonsured at the Protection Convent in Voronezh and later moved to the Florovsky Convent in Kyiv, where she lived many years and received many who came to seek her counsel. After her repose many cases of help were recorded. She is buried in Kyiv.

Her relics were found on 16 August 2009 and rest in the church of the Ascension of the Lord. In 2009 the Synod of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church numbered her among the locally venerated saints of the Kyiv eparchy. She is commemorated on 6 October (the source does not give the style).