Maria Skobtsova

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Saint Maria Skobtsova
Maria with Nikolai Berdyaev and Stefan Tsankov, 1930
Born	Elizaveta Yurievna Pilenko 20 December 1891 Riga, Russian Empire (now Latvia)
Died	31 March 1945 (aged 53) Ravensbrück Concentration Camp, Fürstenberg/Havel, Germany
Cause of death	Poison gas
Title	Mayor of Anapa
Political party	Socialist-Revolutionary Party
Spouse(s)	Dmitry Kuzmin-Karavayev (m. 1910-19??; divorced) Daniil Skobtsov (dissolved 1932)[1]
Children	3
Awards	Righteous among the Nations

Saint Mother Maria of Paris
Saint Maria Skobtsova of Paris
Righteous Martyr
Born	Elizaveta Pilenko 20 December 1891 Riga, Russian Empire
Residence	77, Rue de Lourmel, Grenelle, 15th Arrondissement of Paris
Died	31 March 1945 Ravensbrück Concentration Camp, Fürstenberg/Havel, Germany
Venerated in	Eastern Orthodox Church Episcopal Church Anglican Church of Canada Anglican Church of Australia
Canonized	1 May 2004[2], Istanbul by the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople.
Feast	20 July[3] [July 7 Old Calendar]

Maria Skobtsova (20 [8 Old Calendar] December 1891 – 31 March 1945), known as Mother Maria (Russian: Мать Мария), Saint Mary (or Mother Maria) of Paris, born Elizaveta Yurievna Pilenko (Елизавета Юрьевна Пиленко), Kuzmina-Karavayeva (Кузьмина-Караваева) by her first marriage, Skobtsova (Скобцова) by her second marriage, was a Russian noblewoman, poet, nun, and member of the French Resistance during World War II. She has been canonized a saint in the Eastern Orthodox Church and is remembered with a Lesser Feast in the Episcopal Church, the Anglican Church of Canada, and the Anglican Church of Australia.