Varvara Ivanovna Konkina was born in 1868 in the village of Sushki, Ryazan province. In 1887, she entered as a novice in the Spaso-Vlahernsky Women’s Monastery, where she took the veil and labored until the monastery was closed in 1923. After the closure of the monastery, she lived in the village of Sledovo. On September 26, 1937, she was arrested and accused of 'participating in a counter-revolutionary church group.' On October 15, 1937, a troika of the NKVD sentenced her to 10 years in a corrective labor camp. Not admitting her guilt, she endured beatings and torture, as a result of which she was declared unfit for labor. On February 21, 1938, a troika of the NKVD sentenced her to the highest measure of punishment. On April 5, 1938, she was shot at the Butovo firing range. By the decree of the Holy Synod on December 26, 2006, she was canonized as a saint.
