Martyr Matron Navolokin

The persecution of Soviet power to the Russian Church was such that it was not to say about their faith, but even silently follow it as a feat. The new martyrs and confessors, glorified in the face of the saints did not come: believed, prayed and meekly went to their Calvarys.

“Polit.ru” recalls those who gave their lives for faith and by whose prayers the Russian Church is alive - even if almost nothing came to us besides the name.

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Cathedral of Karaganda saints

Matrona Navolokina is from the village of purchased Ryazhsky district of the Ryazan province.

In 1938, 44-year-old Matron Navolokina was arrested on charges of evasion of the population and convicted of three months of forced labor. Until August 1939 she was a collective farmer on the Krasnaya Novsk collective farm of the Ryazhsky district, then, as recorded in her investigative case, "she walked, poverted in different areas of the Ryazan region"

May 24, 1940 was detained in the village. Galino (Chalino?) Of the Pronsky (now Skopinsky) district of the Ryazan region along with Evdokia Nazina and Evdokia Guseva. The detainees were accused of “anti -Soviet agitation” for the fact that women who were going on a pilgrimage to Ryazan sang spiritual poems in the house where they stopped for the night.

During the investigation was kept in Ryazhskaya prison. Passed in the group "The case of Nazina D.I. et al. Ryazan region, 1940" She did not plead guilty. She refused to read the preliminary investigation.

From the indictment: “The anti -Soviet group of churchmen organizedly opposed the elections to the Supreme Council, local councils, censuses, slandered the Soviet regime, arranged illegal gatherings, distributed a/s propaganda, recruited to her organization of churchmen and school -age children, which were treated with the spirit, carried out a/s campaign among the population.”

At the trial showed (it is possible not to bring the children and her husband that she left her husband, “since he had driven me,” she abandoned the children, “so God pleased”.

On October 25, 1940, the Judicial Collegium for Criminal Cases of the Ryazan Regional Court was sentenced to six years in ITL. On January 11, 1941, the condemnation was re-qualified on Article 58-10 of Part 1 of the Criminal Code of the RSFSR. The punishment was serving in the Karlag of the NKVD.

July 11, 1941 was arrested in the camp on charges of "counter -revolutionary agitation and sabotage." Passed in the group "The case of N.I. Sundukova and others. Karlag, 1941 " She did not plead guilty, refused to sign the interrogation protocol.

On September 29, she was sentenced to be shot by a permanent session of the Karaganda regional court at the Karlag of the NKVD.

Shot on January 11, 1942, buried in an unknown common grave.