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Saints Peter and Fevronia side by side in monastic habits, an embroidered shroud from Tsaritsa Irina Godunova’s workshop, 1593

Saints Peter and Fevronia of Murom

A prince and the peasant girl who healed him, who chose exile over parting

Patron of
newly-weds
Western calendar
Not kept
Orthodox calendar
25 June (8 July on the old calendar)

Peter became Prince of Murom in 1203, and some years before he had fallen ill with leprosy that no one could heal, until a vision told him that a bee-keeper's daughter could: Fevronia, a pious peasant girl of the village of Laskova. She healed him and he married her, and when the haughty boyars would not have a princess of common birth he refused to leave her, so that the two were banished and sailed away along the River Oka until Murom begged them to come back. They took monastic vows as David and Euphrosyne, died on the same day and hour, 25 June 1228, and were laid in one grave, and the Orthodox keep them as patrons of newly-weds.

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