New Martyr20th century
New Martyr Ilya Fondaminsky
Also known as Elijah Fondaminsky · Ilya Fondaminsky
A writer and publisher of the Russian emigration and member of the Rue de Lourmel community in Paris; of Jewish birth, he was baptized into the Orthodox Church shortly before perishing at Auschwitz.
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A writer and publisher of the Russian emigration and member of the Rue de Lourmel community in Paris; of Jewish birth, he was baptized into the Orthodox Church shortly before perishing at Auschwitz.
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Baptized Orthodox before his death; reposed 1942 at Auschwitz; glorified 2004 by the Ecumenical Patriarchate with St. Maria Skobtsova (OS-1559) and St. Demetrius Klepinin.
Sources: OrthodoxWiki; Ecumenical Patriarchate glorification of the Paris martyrs (2004)