Irene of Murom

Holy Right-⁠Believing Irene of Murom was a princess of Murom in the eleventh and twelfth centuries, wife of Saint Constantine, prince of Murom. The Church commemorates her on 6 July (new style), in the Synaxis of the Saints of Vladimir.

She was the wife of the right-⁠believing prince Yaroslav, named in baptism Constantine Svyatoslavich of Murom. With him she shared the cares and labour for the spiritual and moral enlightenment of the land, inhabited by pagans. In armed struggle their son, the right-⁠believing prince and martyr Michael, perished. The labours of the princes, however, were crowned by the baptism of Murom and the local Mordvins in the waters of the Oka river.

Prince Constantine died in 1129 and was buried in the church of the Annunciation, built on the spot where Prince Michael was killed, beside Saint Theodore and Saint Princess Irene, who had died earlier.