Icon of Saint Matrona of Russia polisher

Icon of Saint Matrona from Russia, hand silk-screened on a polished gold background in various dimensions.

Feast of 2 May

St. Matrona was born in 1881 AD in the village of Sebino Epiphanishkaya in the prefecture of Tula, now called Komiwski, to pious and virtuous parents, Demetrius and Natalia. Oshia had three more siblings, Ivan, Michael and Maria. Her parents, because they were poor, thought of giving the waiting child to the orphanage in Golitsyn. But Matrona’s mother saw, before her birth, in her dream that a bird in human form but without eyes came and sat on her right hand. She then took her dream as a sign to God that the child she would bring into the world would be a vessel of election, and so they decided not to give her to the orphanage.

Ossia was born blind. At her baptism, which was performed by the priest Basil, pious and proactive, a light cloud was formed over the bathing pool, giving off a fragrance. This too was a sign that indicated the spiritual progress that the Saint would have.

The only place she went all the time, because she was blind, was the church. When her mother couldn’t find her at home, she knew that Matrona was at church. Even from her childhood, she had been given the gift of foresight and insight. She knew people’s illnesses, their problems, their failures, and so she warned and advised them.

The Lady visited many pilgrimages in Russia. On one of her pilgrimages she found herself in front of St. John of Crostan, who was still alive at the time. Without seeing the Ossia, he told her to open space and shouted: “Matrona, come here”, without knowing her. And St. John continued: “She will be my successor. She is the eighth pillar of Russia”. The Saint was then fourteen years old.

At the age of seventeen Matrona not only could not see, but she stopped walking. She lived thus paralyzed for fifty years. Nevertheless, she never complained and said that the cause of all that happened to her was spiritual and only God knows the causes. She would say to those who visited her: “The time will come when they will put bread and a cross before you, for you to choose. We will go through difficult times and we Christians must choose the cross.”

She blessed the people who visited her, put her hands on their heads and read prayers to them. On her forehead, from the many crosses she made, a dimple formed on her forehead. God also endowed her with the gift of miracle-working and thus she healed many and benefited many spiritually.

The Holy God revealed to her that the day of her departure from this vain world was approaching. Three days before her death, he gave instructions for her funeral service and burial. St. Matrona slept peacefully in 1952 A.D. and was buried in the cemetery of the monastery of Daniel.

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