Saint Matrona of Moscow (Matrona Dmitrievna Nikonova) was born blind to a poor family in 1881 in the village of Sebino in Russia. She also loss the use of her legs as a teenager. She was remarkably devout even at a young age, and had the gifts of miracle-working and spiritual insight. Saint John of Kronstadt, one of the most important figures in the Russian Orthodox Church at the time declared Saint Matrona to be "my replacement, the eighth pillar of Russia" when she was only 14 years old!
Some time after the Russian Revolution in 1917 and the establishment of the communist Soviet state, Saint Matrona was forced to leave her home village and move to Moscow, where she lived illegally, moving from apartment to apartment and relying on the hospitality of others. By divine providence she avoided arrest by the communist authorities, at a time when persecution of the church was ongoing.
Both in Sebino and in Moscow Saint Matrona would spend the nights in prayer and the days accepting visitors whom she would pray for and give advice to, using her God-given spiritual gifts. She would minister to the sick and suffering this way until her repose in 1952.
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