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Martyr

Maria Zhuravlyova

A woman martyr of the Moscow eparchy who suffered for Christ in 1937.

Feast
December 2old style December 15
Reposed
193720th century
Place
Moscow Eparchy
Order
Martyrs

Life

Holy Martyr Maria Zhuravlyova was a novice in the eparchy of Moscow and received the crown of martyrdom in 1937. She lived from 1869 until 15 December 1937.

The sources consulted give no details of her life; we know only that she is entered in the Synaxis of the New Martyrs of Butovo and in the Synaxis of the Saints of Moscow. The Synod of the Russian Church canonized her in 2005.

She is commemorated on 2 December by the old calendar (15 December by the new, the day of her death).

Commemorated the same day December 2