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Righteous · 20th century

Saint Matrona of Moscow

Also known as Matrona Nikonova · Blessed Matrona

A blind and bedridden woman of great prayer and spiritual sight who, through the hardest years of the twentieth century in Russia, counseled and comforted the multitudes who came to her and obtained healing for many.

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Notes

Modern Russian saint; also widely venerated on her repose.

Sources: OCA Synaxarion (oca.org), Lives of the Saints