Anna Ivanovna Abrikosova
Anna Ivanovna Abrikossowa ( Russian Анна Ивановна Абрикосова ; scientific transliteration Anna Ivanovna Abrikosova , OPL ; born January 23, 1882 in Kitai-Gorod , Russian Empire ; † July 23, 1936 in Moscow , Soviet Union ) was a prominent Greek Catholic of the Russian Federation Church and founder of the Third Dominican Order in Russia.
Life
Anna Abrikossowa was born in Moscow in 1882. She came from a Russian aristocratic merchant family of Russian Orthodox faith. She completed her studies at Girton College in England. After returning to Russia, she married Vladimir Vladimirovich. During a stay in Paris , she converted to Catholicism on December 20, 1908 in the Church of St. Magdalena . In 1911, some sources mention the year 1913, Abrikossova was accepted into the novitiate of the Third Order of St. Dominic and chose the religious name Mother Ekaterina . In 1917 Abrikossova himself founded and led a lay community of lay Dominican women in Moscow. In her lay apostolate, among other things, she campaigned for Catholics whose families outlawed conversion to Catholicism, and she also promoted the Catholic faith in Russia's upper class. Abrikossowa was a parishioner of the Russian-Greek Catholic Church, her husband, who also converted to Catholicism, was later ordained a Greek Catholic priest by the metropolitan Andrei Scheptyzkyj .
During the persecution of Christians in the Soviet Union , her husband was arrested by the Russian communist police in 1922 and sentenced to death by shooting. On November 11, 1923 Anna Abrikossowa was also arrested with her religious sisters and some parishioners. The court sentenced her and the oldest nuns to ten years' imprisonment, which had to be served in the gulag and in exile in Siberia. During the imprisonment, she strengthened her religious sisters in the Catholic faith and also took care of the prisoners through acting charity . In 1932 Abrikossowa was operated on for breast cancer in the prison hospital in Butyrka and then transferred to Kostroma . Because of her illness, she was released early from prison in 1932. In freedom she met a Russian Catholic named Kamilija Kruselnitskaja. One day Abrikossowa was invited to a religious doctrinal talk with a few other Catholics, among them there were also priests. One of the participants was a communist spy. Based on her testimony, Anna Abrikossova was arrested again in 1933. The NKVD accused them, among other things, of participating in a conspiracy to assassinate Stalin , of having helped plan the overthrow of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and of supporting the alleged restoration of the Romanov family . She and the participating Catholics were sentenced to a total of eight years in a labor camp.
Abrikossova's health deteriorated while he was in detention. On July 23, 1936, Anna Abrikossova died in Butyrka Prison Hospital at the age of 54. Her body was cremated on July 27, 1936 and the ashes were buried in a hidden mass grave on the grounds of the Donskoy monastery . She was elevated to Venerable Servant of God by the Catholic Church , and her beatification process has been ongoing since 2002 .
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| SURNAME | Abrikossowa, Anna Ivanovna |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Абрикосова, Анна Ивановна (Cyrillic) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Russian Catholic, Venerable Servant of God |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 23, 1882 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Moscow |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 23, 1936 |
| Place of death | Moscow , Soviet Union |