Saint Martyr Vera was born in 1870 in the city of Torzhok, Tver province, in the family of a tailor, Semyon Morozov. At the age of 20, she became a novice at the Passion Monastery in Moscow, where she labored until its closure in the early 1920s. After the monastery was closed, together with other novices and nuns, she rented a room on Tikhvinskaya Street, striving to maintain the monastic rule and earning a living through needlework. She worked as a nurse at a tuberculosis institute.
On October 28, 1937, a member of the Communist Party, an informant, and simultaneously a witness who lived in the same building as the nuns, at the request of the NKVD officers, signed a document with false testimonies. It was written against novice Vera that she spoke about the repressions and the need to gather for prayer. Based on this false testimony, on January 14, 1938, the head of the Sverdlovsk district department of the NKVD in Moscow, Belychev, received authorization for the arrest of Vera Semyonovna Morozova. She was arrested on January 16 and immediately interrogated.
The investigator asked her about other nuns, to which she replied that she did not know who lived in Moscow. Vera categorically refused to admit her guilt in anti-Soviet activities. The investigation brought in a witness who claimed that many dissatisfied people came to Morozova regarding collectivization. On February 21, the NKVD troika sentenced the novice to death by shooting. Saint Martyr Vera Morozova was shot on February 26, 1938, and buried in an anonymous mass grave at the Butovo firing range near Moscow.
