The Mary and Martha Convent that Elizabeth established after her husband was murdered. This order of sisters were active in ministry to the poor which was an innovation in Russia where the religious were traditionally focused on a life of prayer not action.

Leave a Reply

Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:

WordPress.com Logo

You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. Log Out /  Change )

Twitter picture

You are commenting using your Twitter account. Log Out /  Change )

Facebook photo

You are commenting using your Facebook account. Log Out /  Change )

Connecting to %s