Confessor20th century
Saint Blandina of Iași
Also known as Blandina Gobjilă · Mama Blandina · Blandina the Confessor of Iași · Blandina of Iasi
A priest's daughter of Bessarabia and a schoolteacher, deported with her family to Siberia after the Soviet occupation and held there fifteen years. She spent her last years serving the pilgrims who came to St Paraskeva at the Metropolitan Cathedral in Iași, where she reposed in 1971.
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Their life
A priest's daughter of Bessarabia and a schoolteacher, deported with her family to Siberia after the Soviet occupation and held there fifteen years. She spent her last years serving the pilgrims who came to St Paraskeva at the Metropolitan Cathedral in Iași, where she reposed in 1971.
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Sources: Romanian Patriarchate communique, canonization of 16 women of holy life (1 July 2025); Basilica.ro; Doxologia.ro