Venerable Martyr
Kalistena Radkova
Nun of Apriltsi Monastery
Bulgarian nun of Apriltsi Monastery, killed in 1876.
Life
Venerable Martyr Kalistena Radkova (Kalista) was a Bulgarian nun at the Novo Selo convent (today part of Apriltsi) and was killed in 1876. The Bulgarian Orthodox Church canonized her in April 2011, together with the other martyrs of Novo Selo, and commemorates them on 9 May.
She was the youngest daughter of the chorbadzhi Radko Minev Ivanchev. She was born in 1815 at Sevlievo. At twenty she entered the Holy Trinity convent of Novo Selo. She had inherited a fortune considerable for the time and bequeathed to the girls' school and to the church community of the town the sum of 14,000 gold groshes.
On 9 May 1876 she was cut down by bashi-bazouks in the monastery church, together with the abbess Susanna, two priests and four nuns.
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