Saint Irina, born in 1882 in the village of Agintovo, Moscow province, was given the opportunity to serve in the Novodevichy Convent in Moscow. In 1932, with the beginning of the persecutions against the Russian Orthodox Church, she left the convent and returned to her native village. In the late 1930s, during the period of severe persecutions, she was arrested on January 27, 1938, and imprisoned in a prison in Sergiev Posad. During the interrogation on January 31, she did not confess to being guilty of anti-Soviet agitation, asserting that she spoke about the existence of war and about God. On February 19, 1938, the NKVD troika sentenced her to death by shooting. Saint Irina was destined to be shot on February 26, 1938, and buried in an unknown common grave at the Butovo firing range near Moscow.
