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New Martyr Yuri Skobtsov
Also known as George Skobtsov · Yuri Skobtsov
Son of St. Maria Skobtsova, who shared in the rescue of Jews and others through the Rue de Lourmel community in Paris; arrested by the Gestapo and deported, he perished in the Dora concentration camp.
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Son of St. Maria Skobtsova, who shared in the rescue of Jews and others through the Rue de Lourmel community in Paris; arrested by the Gestapo and deported, he perished in the Dora concentration camp.
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Reposed 1944 at Dora; glorified 2004 by the Ecumenical Patriarchate among the martyrs of the Russian emigration, with his mother St. Maria Skobtsova (OS-1559).
Sources: OrthodoxWiki; Ecumenical Patriarchate glorification of the Paris martyrs (2004)