Tatiana Fomicheva

Saint Tatiana Fomicheva, venerable martyr, was a novice in Russia, born in 1897 into a peasant family in the Moscow governorate, and died in the camp after 1937, in the time of the Soviet persecution. She was canonized in the year 2000, for veneration throughout the Church. The date of her death is not known. Her commemoration is on 20 November, which is 3 December by the new calendar, and in the Synaxis of the new martyrs and confessors of Russia.

At birth she was named Tatiana Alexeevna Fomicheva, and she was born to Alexei Mikhailov and Paraskeva Alexeeva Fomichev. She was baptized four days after birth. In 1916 she entered the Anosin monastery of Saints Boris and Gleb as a novice. After the revolution of 1917 the monastery was closed, and Tatiana returned to her parents. In May 1931 she was arrested with seventeen other nuns and novices who had settled near the closed monastery of the Exaltation of the Cross. From 1931 to 1934 she spent in a labor camp. After her release she settled in the village of Sheludkovo, in the Volokolamsk district, from where she went to Yazvishche, where she helped Archpriest Vladimir Medvedyuk at the church of the Holy Trinity.

She was arrested a second time in 1937, with Father Vladimir. She resolutely refused to confirm the accusations of the investigators, without informing against anyone. Father Vladimir was shot, and the novice Tatiana was sentenced to ten years in a labor camp, where she ended her life.

She was numbered among the new martyrs and confessors of Russia, for veneration throughout the Church, by decision of the Jubilee Council of Bishops of the Russian Orthodox Church, held in Moscow from 13 to 16 August 2000.