St. Matrona of Moscow
Blessed Matrona was born in 1881 in the village of Sebino in Tula province, blind from birth and paralyzed from the age of seventeen, yet endowed by God with the gifts of clairvoyance, prayer, and healing.
In 1925 she moved to Moscow, where for decades, homeless and hunted during the Soviet persecutions, she received as many as forty visitors a day, counseling, consoling, and healing them. She reposed on May 2, 1952, foretelling that crowds would one day come to her grave, and she was glorified by the Russian Orthodox Church in 1999 for local veneration in the Moscow diocese, and in 2004 for churchwide veneration; her relics now rest at the Protection (Pokrov) Convent in Moscow, one of Russia's most visited shrines.
Everyone, everyone who will come to me: tell me, as if I were alive, of your sorrows, and I will see you, and hear you, and help you.
All those who ask me for help I will meet after their death, everyone.
Do you think Matrona is God? Only God helps!
Why judge other people? Think more of yourself.
If a nation loses faith in God, it faces scourges, and if it does not repent, it disappears from the earth.
Troparion · Tone 2
Today, O faithful, let us glorify the divinely-wise blessed Eldress Matrona, who blossomed in the land of Tula and who gloriously adorned the city of Moscow; for she, not knowing the light of day, was illumined by the light of Christ and was enriched with the gift of healing. Having been a migrant and a wanderer on earth, now, in the heavenly Bridal Chamber, she stands before God's throne and prays for our souls.
Kontakion · Tone 7
Called to serve Christ from your mother's womb, O righteous Matrona, you walked the path of sorrows and tribulations, showing steadfast faith and piety, you were well pleasing to God. Therefore, honoring your memory, we pray to you: Help us to abide in the love of God, O blessed eldress!
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