1. Maria Skobtsova was a Russian noblewoman, poet, nun, and member of the French Resistance during World War II.
10 Facts About Maria Skobtsova
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Maria Skobtsova was born to an aristocratic family in 1891 in Riga, Russian Empire.
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Maria Skobtsova's father died when she was a teenager, and she embraced atheism.
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Maria Skobtsova's first book, Scythian Shards, was a collection of poetry from this period.
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Maria Skobtsova subsequently converted to Catholicism and became a Catholic priest.
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Maria Skobtsova's bishop encouraged her to take vows as a nun, something she did only with the assurance that she would not have to live in a monastery, secluded from the world.
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Mother Maria Skobtsova made a rented house in Paris her "convent".
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Mother Maria Skobtsova was glorified by act of the Holy Synod of the Ecumenical Patriarchate on 16 January 2004.
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On June 24,2020, a memorial plaque to Maria Skobtsova was unveiled at the famous Sainte Genevieve de Bois cemetery, on the territory of the Russian necropolis.
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Mother Maria Skobtsova was designated as Righteous among the Nations at Yad Vashem in Israel.