Saint Parascheva born Alya in the Empire of Tamora (
the federated kingdom of Vojvodina) in 1880, fled the Tamoran Empire for the then independent
Kingdom of Attica and eventually made her way in the Holy Kingdom of Samantra in 1908.
A few years after arriving in Samantra she converted to Orthodox Christianity and joined a monastery. The continued her education as a nun at the Royal University in Petrograd (the capital of Samantra).She was a major outspoken critic of the then Kingdom of Samantra considering the society and the government as having abandoned the Lord and his teachings. Her early life in the Empire of Tamora had a great impact on her world view and shaped her perception regarding how a society and country should be run. She advocated for Samantra to become a theocracy and presented her views on how a country should be run in her book the "Kingdom of God". Her views entered in direct contradiction Samantra's Royal government at the time and eventually lead to her expulsion from the faculty staff and banishment to the monastery.
The chaotic years following the defeat of Samantra in the Great War Era and the following Civil War which saw the demise of the Samantran monarchy gives Parascheva the chance to return to public life and resume her advocacy for Samantra " to return to God" in order to stop fratricide (civil war). She is eventually captured and imprisoned by communist rebels. She died in captivity under gruesome conditions and following months of torture and abuse.
The historical life of Parascheva is often overlooked in Samantra and major focused is put on Saint Parascheva or Our Lady of Tamora as she is often called. The religious figure is a woman of great wisdom and virtue that came from the lands of Tamora following a revelation that saw her choosing not just the Christian God Jesus Christ as savior but also a holy mission to bring the Samantran people back to God. She is seen as a divine messenger for Samantra to become a theocracy, as a Christian martyr for Christ and the Samantran theocracy as well as a maker of miracles.
She is venerated nationwide, her book "the Kingdom of God" is one of the bestselling books in Samantra, more than 200 thousand pilgrims come each year during her feast day (14th of October) to pray at her tomb in Novvy Rim, the spiritual capital of Samantra, and dozens of churches across Samantra are dedicated to her.
One of the few pictures of the real life Saint Parascheva. Such pictures are rarely shown in Samantra as the Samantran Orthodox Church and its believers feel it diminishes her sainthood.
A picture of the cross marking her grave. Her remains were buried in a field. Her body was later exhumed and her remains are now resting in the Cathedral of Novvy Rim.
Saint Parascheva as is now known to most Samantrans.
More than 200 thousand pilgrims come each year during her feast day (14th of October) to pray at her tomb in Novvy Rim and to kiss her relic in veneration.