Marta Leisman

Holy New Martyr Marta Leisman, née Teder, was the wife of Father Nikolai Leisman of the Seli-⁠Tõstamaa parish. On 14 June 1941, when her husband was arrested by the NKVD, she and their son Jüri were taken too. In 2012 the Ecumenical Patriarchate canonized her together with her husband, among the eleven martyrs of Estonia.

The Holy Synod of the Ecumenical Patriarchate decided on 22 February 2012, on the proposal of the Orthodox Church of Estonia, to canonize eleven clergy and laity who suffered for the faith in the first years of the Soviet occupation: five priests, two deacons, a presbytera and three laypeople. The decision was read on 17 May 2012 in the Transfiguration Cathedral in Tallinn. They are remembered on 14 June, in memory of the deportations of 1941. The sources keep rather few details about the fate of each: some were executed, others died in prison or in camps.