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Saint Lydia

She was born in the city of Ufa on March 20, 1901. Her father was a priest who joined the schism of "Renovators", organized by the Bolsheviks in 1922. Lydia asked her father’s permission to leave and live alone. She worked as a forest ranger and was transferred in 1926 at the communal logging area, where she worked with low-paid laborers. Her sweetness, gentleness, and morality made everyone around her behave more politely and feel better. The intelligence agencies watched her closely and soon found out that she supplied the workers with booklets with the lives of saints, prayers, guidance and advices of the prelates of the church. She was unceasingly and brutally tortured. A soldier named Ataev who was witness of her torment killed two of her torturers but the third soldier killed Ataev as well as Lydia, while the two remaining torturers and murderers became insane and died by nervous breakdown. One of them, before his death, told Sergeant Alexei Ikonikof what happened and he, in turn notified the Church. He experienced the same martyrdom.