Maria Skobtsova

Mother Mary (Russian Мать Мария, born Елизавета Юрьевна Пиленко / Elizabeth Yuryevna Pilenko, in first marriage Кузьмина-Караваева/Kusmina-Karawajewa, in second marriage Скобцова / Skobzowa; . * 8 Dezemberjul / December 20 1891greg in Riga, . † March 31, 1945 at Ravensbrück concentration camp ) was a Russian poet, nun and righteous among the nations. During World War II she was a member of the French resistance movement.

Life

Elizabeth Pilenko grew up in Anapa on the Black Sea and moved to St. Petersburg later. As the first woman she studied theology. Given the need in Russia, she developed a spirituality of welfare for the poor: " In Orthodoxy, salvation is not separate from salvation to gain other! " After the October Revolution, she left Russia and landed after several stopovers in Paris. In 1932 she became a nun and took the name of Mother Mary.

During the German occupation of Paris, she tried to save Jewish refugees from deportation to concentration camps. In February 1943, she was therefore arrested and initially brought to Ravensbrück concentration camp Royallieu later. On March 31, 1945, she went there instead of a Jewish prisoners in the gas chamber.

Mother Mary is honored at Yad Vashem as Righteous Among the Nations .. on 16 January 2004 she was canonized by the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople Opel.

The Soviet film " Мать Мария " ( " Mother Mary " ) of 1982 treated with Lyudmila Kassatkina their lives.