This is election, not offense. The great path and not an evil. Once more in a term fulfilled, Once more roars the trumpet of the end; And the fate of a great people Once more is by the prophet proclaimed. Thou art persecuted again, O Israel, But what can human malice mean to thee, who have heard the thunder from Sinai? Publications References Sources Biographies External links Maria Skobtsova, orthodoxwiki.org. Accessed 7 December 2022. Maria Skobtsova – her activity to save Jews' lives during the Holocaust, at Yad Vashem website 1891 births 1945 deaths French Resistance members Socialist Revolutionary Party politicians 20th-century Eastern Orthodox nuns Women poets from the Russian Empire Russian Empire saints Nuns from the Russian Empire Women mayors of places in Russia Eastern Orthodox Righteous Among the Nations Eastern Orthodox Christians from France French people who died in Ravensbrück concentration camp 20th-century Christian saints Female anti-fascists Old Bolsheviks Nobility from Riga Soviet civilians killed in World War II 20th-century Eastern Orthodox martyrs People killed by gas chamber by Nazi Germany Soviet people who died in Nazi concentration camps Christian female saints of the Late Modern era 20th-century Russian poets Emigrants from the Russian Empire to France Eastern Orthodox socialists Christian socialists from the Russian Empire Female resistance members of World War II Female Christian socialists 20th-century French women