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Saint Matrona of Moscow (1885-1952)
Saint Matrona was blind from birth – actually she had no eyes – and in her teens she lost the use of her legs. From an early age she had a spontaneous deep life of prayer and a gift of clairvoyance. Saint John of Kronstadt, on meeting her, exclaimed, ‘Here is one to take my place! The eighth pillar of Russia!’ Much of her life she had to move frequently from one part of Moscow to another to avoid persecution by the atheists. She often lived in extreme poverty, in an unheated room in the Moscow winter. Yet she healed countless people and brought many to faith. She was canonised by Patriarch Alexis II in 1998.
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