New Martyr Grand Duchess Elizabeth

Also known as Elizabeth Feodorovna · the New Martyr Elizabeth

A German princess who freely embraced Orthodoxy, and after her husband's murder gave away all she had to found the Convent of Martha and Mary, serving the sick and poor of Moscow; cast alive into a mine-shaft in 1918, she was heard singing hymns until she died.

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Notes

Region of origin Germany (Hesse). Sister of Tsarina Alexandra. Not St Elizabeth the Wonderworker of Constantinople (OS-1055).

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