Martyr Evdokia Alexandrovna Sheikova was born on February 11, 1856, in the village of Puza, Nizhny Novgorod province. After the death of her parents, she was raised in the family of her uncle, a church elder. At the age of 20, after an illness, she became paralyzed and established a semblance of a monastic community, leading a strict prayer life and undertaking the feat of foolishness for Christ. On August 16, 1919, a punitive detachment arrived in the village of Puza, where they mocked her and demanded that she vote for execution. On the morning of August 18, a priest, Vasily Radugin, visited her and administered the Holy Mysteries to her. During the execution, her fellow nuns shielded her from blows. All the executed were buried in a common grave. The grave of the martyr was venerated by local residents throughout the years of Soviet power. Evdokia Sheikova was glorified together with her fellow nuns by the Archierarchical Jubilee Council of the Russian Orthodox Church in 2000. In 2001, the relics of the Nizhny Novgorod martyrs were uncovered and now rest in the Church of the Assumption of the Mother of God in the village of Suvorova.
