(1893 - 1937) – Nun Venerable Martyr
Commemoration: November 19 (November 6 O.S.) in the Synaxis of New Martyrs and Confessors of the Russian Church.
Anna Alexeyevna Gorshkova was born on February 2, 1893, in the village of Khmelniky, Uglichsky Uyezd, Yaroslavl Province. Early on, feeling a calling to a contemplative monastic life, Anna took the tonsure with the name Seraphima and labored in the monastery until 1917. After the revolution, she had to wander.
In 1921, she managed to settle in Petrograd at the Resurrection Novodevichy Monastery, but to make a living, she had to work as a glazier.
On February 17, 1932, nun Seraphima was arrested and sentenced to three years of exile in Kazakhstan. Finding herself in the city of Chimkent, she remained in this place of exile longer than required by the authorities, as she found her calling in serving the exiled clergymen. Thus, together with her spiritual mentors, she achieved the holy martyrdom, as indicated in the "investigative case of Hieromonk Gavriil (Vladimirov) and others."
She was arrested on September 10, 1937.
She was executed on November 19, 1937. The execution took place near the city of Chimkent in a place known as Lisya Balka.
The burial took place there as well.
She was canonized in August 2000 by the Hierarchical Council of the Russian Orthodox Church.
Saints of Kazakhstan
