The story of 30 nuns, imprisoned for Christ, who refused to work for the Soviet regime and the miraculous events surrounding their witness to the truth. Originally published in English in “Russia’s Catacomb Saints” by I. M. Andreyev, Fr. Seraphim Rose, and Fr. Herman Podmoshensky.

“We can work, but we do not wish to work for the regime of Antichrist and we shall not work even though they might kill us for this."

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From “Russia’s Catacomb Saints”:

"But without a definition of the category of your inability to work, they will send you to extraordinarily difficult labor."
"All the same, we will not work whether it be difficult or easy labors."
"Why?" I asked in astonishment.
"Because we do not wish to work for the regime of Antichrist."

“We can work, but we do not wish to work for the regime of Antichrist and we shall not work even though they might kill us for this."

Though prisoners, they were spiritually free. No one in the Soviet Union had such freedom of worship as they.

What their example did to instill religious faith in thousands of prisoners and guards there at Vorkuta, I cannot begin to describe. Later on, when I had the opportunity as a locker-room attendant for the MVD men to talk with some of the more hardened Russian Communists about religion, not one failed to mention the Miracle of the Nuns.
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