the holy new martyrs of eastern russia - Coptic Orthodox teaching

The Latvians retreated.
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They served the All-Night Vigil and Liturgy. Many pilgrims remained to
spend the night in the monastery, so as to prevent its possible looting.
Sergius and the old man, who died from his wounds, were given a
triumphant funeral and then buried opposite the church, on the right side.
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Deacon Basil Pavlovich Adamantov was born in 1892. He served in
Diveyevo uyezd, Nizhni-Novgorod province. He was arrested in 1919. His
wife Maria was also arrested, as were Anna Adamantova and Paraskeva
Adamantova, the wife of a deacon.
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Blessed Dunyushka - her full name was Eudocia Alexandrovna Sheikova -
was born in a peasant family in the village of Puzo. Her mother Alexandra
died early, when Dunya was two years old, and her father Alexander married
again. Dunya's real mother was very pious, but her stepmother was of a
different spirit. She tried to kill Dunya's father with arsenic, and succeeded
when he was taken away to Siberia. Dunya herself said that for seven years
she had known that her step-mother was trying to poison her father, and had
told her father:
"Don't drink that water, look, it's muddy."
In the same village there lived Dunya's uncle and aunt. Dunya learned
piety from them and lived with them during her adolescent years. Uncle was
the churchwarden; prayer in church was not enough for them, and they
prayed a lot at home. When Dunya was nine, she and her friend Maria went
to Sarov, and there an elder knocked their heads together, from which
moment they lived side by side for three years. Maria would reap while
Dunya sat on the sheaves and sang. They always went to church together
hand in hand. Dunya would always walk in a warm scarf and homespun
coat, and never showed her face. In their youth they went to Sarov, Diveyevo
and Ponetayevka. Dunya recounted how they once sent to see Pelagia
Ivanovna in Diveyevo. She was feeding the doves at the fence. Dunya went
up to the fence.
"Go away, you scamp, don't scare the doves," said the cell-attendants.
Dunya cried and would not go away. She had a morsel in her hands, and
she threw that, too, to the pigeons. Pelagia Ivanovna said:
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