Martha Kovrova

Holy Venerable Martyr Martha Kovrova, a novice, was born in 1887 in the village of Galyghino in the Korobov district of the Moscow region, in a peasant family, with the full name Martha Stepanovna Kovrova. Resolving to devote her life to the service of God, she became a novice at the Alexander-⁠Mariinsky women's monastery in the village of Evlevo, Yegoryevsk district, Ryazan province, and lived there until the monastery was closed.

On 26 February 1938 the novice Martha was arrested, on a charge of "agitation against the collective farms". On 9 March 1938 the NKVD troika of the Moscow region handed down the supreme sentence, shooting. Martha Stepanovna Kovrova was shot on 16 March 1938 at the Butovo range. On 20 July 1989 she was rehabilitated by the prosecutor of the Moscow region for the repressions of 1937. She was numbered among the New Martyrs and Confessors of Russia by decision of the Holy Synod of the Russian Church of 17 July 2006.

She is commemorated on 16 March, the day of her death, in the new style, on the movable day near 29 May in the Synaxis of the New Martyrs of Butovo and on the movable day near 5 September in the Synaxis of the Saints of Moscow.