Venerable New Martyr Martha

Martha Testova was born in 1883 in a village of the Tambov province and in 1914 entered the Diveyevo convent, where her sister already lived. After the revolution and the closing of the convent she settled in a village of the Nizhny Novgorod province.

Arrested in November 1937 and accused of systematic counter-revolutionary agitation, she was sentenced to eight years in camp and sent to Karlag in Kazakhstan. In poor health and declared disabled, she was moved to the camp hospital, where she died on 26 April 1941. She was canonized in 2002 as a venerable martyr.