08 — The Companions

Mother Maria was glorified in 2004 not alone but together with three companions of the rue de Lourmel: her son Yuri (George) Skobtsov, the chaplain Fr. Dimitri Klépinin, and the essayist Ilya Fondaminsky. This section presents the four glorified together and the common witness that binds them.

Tradition: Russian Orthodox (Paris émigré; glorified by the Ecumenical Patriarchate, 2004)

The story of Mother Maria is properly the story of a community, and the Church received it as such: the glorification of 2004 was a glorification of four. This section introduces her three companions in the rescue and the martyrdom and reflects on the shared witness — the refusal, unto death, to disown the persecuted neighbor — that is common to them all.

Section Contents

• The Four Glorified Together — St. Maria, St. Yuri (George) Skobtsov, St. Dimitri Klépinin, and St. Ilya Fondaminsky: who they were and how they died
• Their Witness — the common meaning of their martyrdom: the sacrament of the brother carried to its last consequence

See Also

• Arrest 1943 — the arrests that scattered the community to the camps
• The Sacrament of the Brother/Sister — the theology they died for
• Glorification 2004 — the act that received the four together