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From: Father Lawrence Williams (">ebmh@umist.ac= .uk)
Date:=20 Thu Aug 03 2000 - 01:56:01 EEST=20

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The New=20 Martyr Lydia and With Her, Soldiers Cyril and Alexi=20
&nb= sp; &nbs= p; Commemorated=20 July 20/August 2 ( 1928)

      For Thy sake we are killed all=20
      day long; we were accounted=20
      as sheep for the slaughter.=20
           Rom= ans=20 8:36 =
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Background:=20
Lydia was born in the Russian city of Ufa in 1901
and died for = the Truth=20 in 1928.=20
_____________________________________________________________________= __=20
Before her arrest,
she was part of the catacomb (underground) = Orthodox=20 Church in
Russia and worked for the Collective Lumber Industry =
along=20 with the lowest-paid workers.=20
_____________________________________________________________________= __=20
Lydia was arrested on July 9, 1928.=20
_____________________________________________________________________= __=20
The GPU (secret police)-operations department had long been seeking = a typist=20
who had been supplying the workers of the Forestry Department =
with=20 typewritten brochures containing lives of the Saints,
prayers, =
sermons=20
and instructions of ancient
and recent Church Fathers and = Mothers.=20
_____________________________________________________________________= __=20
It had been noticed
that on this typist's typewriter
the = lower stem=20 of the "k" was broken,
and thus Lydia was discovered.=20
_____________________________________________________________________= __=20
The GPU understood that there had fallen into their hands,
in = Lydia,=20
a clue for uncovering the whole catacomb Orthodox Church.=20
_____________________________________________________________________= __=20
Ten days later,
uninterrupted questioning had not broken the = martyr;=20
she simply refused to say anything.=20
_____________________________________________________________________= __=20
On July 20 the interrogator,
having lost all patience,
gave = Lydia=20 over to the "special command" for interrogation.=20
_____________________________________________________________________= __=20
This "special command" worked in a corner room
in the cellar of = the GPU=20 building.=20
_____________________________________________________________________= __=20
A permanent guard was stationed in the cellar corridor;
on this = day the=20 guard was Cyril Ataev,
a 23-year-old private.=20
_____________________________________________________________________= __=20
He saw Lydia as she was brought into the cellar.=20
_____________________________________________________________________= __=20
The preceding ten days of questioning had drained the strength =
of the=20 martyr and she could not go down the steps.=20
_____________________________________________________________________= __=20
Private Ataev,
at the call of his chiefs,
held her and led = her down=20 to the interrogation chamber.=20
_____________________________________________________________________= __=20
"May Christ save you,"
Lydia thanked the guard,
sensing in = the Red=20 Army guard a spark of compassion for her
in the delicate gentleness = of his=20 strong arms.=20
_____________________________________________________________________= __=20
And Christ saved Ataev.=20
_____________________________________________________________________= __=20
The words of the martyr,
her eyes full of pain and perplexity = fell into=20 his heart.=20
_____________________________________________________________________= __=20
Now he could no longer listen with indifference
to her = uninterrupted=20 screams and cries,
as he previously listened to the same cries from = others=20
being interrogated and=20
tortured.____________________________________________________________= _______=20
____
Lydia was tortured for a long time.=20
_____________________________________________________________________= __=20
The tortures of the GPU were usually fashioned
so as to leave no = particularly noticeable marks
on the body of the tortured,
but = at=20 Lydia's interrogation,
no attention was paid to this.=20
_____________________________________________________________________= __=20
The screams and cries of Lydia
continued almost uninterruptedly = for more=20 than an hour and a half.=20
_____________________________________________________________________= __=20
"But aren't you in pain,
you're screaming and crying,
that = means=20 it's painful?"
asked the exhausted torturers in one of the = intervals.=20
_____________________________________________________________________= __=20
"Painful!
Lord,
how painful!"
replied Lydia with a = broken moan.=20
_____________________________________________________________________= __=20
"Then why don't you talk?
It will be more painful!" said the = perplexed=20 torturers.=20
_____________________________________________________________________= __=20
"I can't talk . . . I can't . . . He won't allow . . . "
groaned = Lydia.=20
_____________________________________________________________________= __=20
"Who won't allow:"=20
_____________________________________________________________________= __=20
"God won't allow!"=20
_____________________________________________________________________= __=20
The torturers devised something new for the martyr,
sexual = assault.=20
_____________________________________________________________________= __=20
There was four of them -- one more was=20
needed.______________________________________________________________= _______=20
__
They called the guard to help.=20
_____________________________________________________________________= __=20
When Ataev entered the room,
he saw Lydia,
understood the = means of=20 her further torture
and his own role in this,
and there was = worked in=20 him a miracle
like to the unexpected conversion
of the ancient = torturers=20 in apostolic days.=20
_____________________________________________________________________= __=20
Ataev's whole soul was repelled by the satanic abominableness, =
and a=20 holy enthusiasm seized him.=20
_____________________________________________________________________= __=20
Totally unaware of what he was doing,
the Red Army guard with = his own=20 revolver killed on the spot
the two torturers who stood before him.=20
_____________________________________________________________________= __=20
Before even the second shot had echoed,
the GPU man who had been = standing behind
hit Cyril on the head with the handle of his gun.=20
_____________________________________________________________________= __=20
Ataev still had strength enough to turn
and seize his attacker = by the=20 throat,
but a shot from the fourth one knocked him to the floor.=20
_____________________________________________________________________= __=20
Cyril fell with his head toward Lydia,
who was stretched out = with=20 thongs.=20
_____________________________________________________________________= __=20
The Lord gave him the opportunity
of hearing once more from the = martyr=20 words of hope.=20
_____________________________________________________________________= __=20
And looking straight into Lydia's eyes,
Cyril,
blood gushing = from=20 him,
gasped his union to the Lord:
"Saint, take me with you!"=20
_____________________________________________________________________= __=20
"I will take you,"
Lydia smiled,
radiant.=20
_____________________________________________________________________= __=20
The sound and meaning of this conversation
as it were opened a = door to=20 the other world,
and terror darkened the consciousness
of the = two GPU=20 men who remained alive.=20
_____________________________________________________________________= __=20
With insane shouts they both began to shoot
the two helpless = victims who=20 threatened them,
and they shot until both their revolvers had been = emptied.=20
_____________________________________________________________________= __=20
Those who had come running at the shots led them away,
shouting=20 insanely,
and they themselves fled from the room,
seized by an = unknown=20 terror.=20
_____________________________________________________________________= __=20
One of the two GPU men became completely insane.=20
_____________________________________________________________________= __=20
The other soon died of nervous shock.=20
_____________________________________________________________________= __=20
Before his death,
this second one told everything to his friend, =
Sergeant Alexei Ikonnikoff,
who turned to God
and brought = this=20 account of martyrdom
to the underground (Catcacomb) Orthodox Church. =
_____________________________________________________________________= __=20
For his zealous propagation of it
he himself soon suffered a = martyr's=20 death.=20
_____________________________________________________________________= __=20
All three - Lydia, Cyril and Alexi, - have been glorified = (canonized)
as=20 saints by both the underground (Catacomb) and Free Orthodox Church.=20
_____________________________________________________________________= __=20
By the prayers of Thy martyrs - Lydia, Cyril and Alexi, - Lord =
Jesus=20 Christ our God, save us and have mercy on us and
protect us from = NATO and=20 the other forces of the cruel and
ungodly New World Order that wage = war=20 against all True Christians
who stand for Apostolic Truth and an = historic=20 Christian faith. Amen.=20
_____________________________________________________________________= __=20
Adapted from RUSSIA'S CATACOMB SAINTS - LIVES OF THE NEW MARTYRS =
by Ivan=20 Andreyev and Blessed Hieromonk Seraphim Rose
St. Herman of Alaska = Press -=20 1982 =
_____________________________________________________________________= __=20

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