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the monastery of the Mother of God in 1900, and became a ryasophor nun in
August, 1908, carrying out obediences on the cliros and in the weaving of
gold thread. In the winter of 1935-36 she went to Metropolitan Cyril with a
parcel and letter from Bishop Joasaph, and took back a letter from
Metropolitan Cyril to Bishop Joasaph. She was arrested on November 29,
1937. Nothing more is known about her.
The NKVD accused Vladyka, on the basis of confessions extorted from
tortured prisoners, of organizing a counter-revolutionary underground
organization, of slandering the Church in the USSR and Stalin himself, and of
sympathies with Fascism and the enemies of the people Trotsky,
Tukhachevsky, etc. Vladyka courageously rejected all the charges against
him. On November 29, a troika condemned Vladyka Joasaph and Fr. Nicholas
to execution by shooting, and the nuns Eudocia and Stepanida to ten years'
hard labour. At 20.35 on December 2, 1937, the feast of St. Joasaph, the prince
of India, Bishop Joasaph was shot in the Kazan inner prison.
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