Maria Nosova

Holy Venerable Martyr Maria Nosova, a novice, was born in 1872 in the village of Dubenka in the Kozelsk district, Kaluga province, in the family of the peasant Pavel Nosov. In 1893 she entered as a novice the Strastnoy Monastery in Moscow, where she struggled until it was closed. Then she settled with other sisters, Evdokia and Pelagia Pavlova, Sofia Seliverstova and Vera Morozova, in a basement apartment on Tikhvinskaya street. Some novices sewed quilts, others, like Maria, worked as orderlies.

Maria was arrested on 25 October 1937, shut in Butyrka and questioned the same day. Asked whether she held political conversations with the sisters, she answered that she did not. Asked whether she spoke among those around her against Soviet power, she again answered no. The investigation was closed, and on 19 November 1937 the NKVD troika sentenced her to ten years of labour camp. On 27 December 1937 she arrived with the convoy at the Mariinsk distribution point of Siblag. The novice Maria Nosova died on 10 May 1938 in the Mariinsk camp in the Kemerovo region and was buried in an unknown grave.

She is commemorated on 10 May, the day of her death, in the new style, on the movable day around 7 February in the Synaxis of the New Martyrs and Confessors of the Russian Church, on the movable day around 29 August in the Synaxis of the Saints of Kuzbass and on the movable day around 5 September in the Synaxis of the Saints of Moscow.