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===Baptism and Infancy===
As is the custom, she was [[Baptism|baptized]] 40 days after birth. When the local clergyman Vasily Troitsky dipped her into the [[font]], a column of light, sweet-scented steam rose up from the font to the ceiling. The clergyman was amazed, and said: ''“I have christened many an infant, but have never seen anything like this! This infant shall be a [[saint]]!”''. The child was christened Matrona, in honor of the venerable Matrona,<ref group="note">Saint Matrona, Abbess of Constantinople ([http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/basis/matrona.html Matrona of Perge]), + ca. 510, feast day [[November 9]].</ref> a Greek zealot of the 5th century.
A friend of Natalia’s later related that when the child was still nursing, her mother complained, ''“What can I do? The baby doesn’t take my breast on Wednesday and Friday – she just sleeps all day and it is impossible to wake her up.”''
* [http://www.pravmir.com/article_102.html Blessed Matrona], Orthodoxy and the World, Russian Orthodox Church Website.
* [[w:Matryona Nikonova|Matryona Nikonova]] at Wikipedia.
* Great Synaxaristes: {{el icon}} ''[http://www.synaxarion.gr/gr/sid/2865/sxsaintinfo.aspx Ἡ Ὁσία Ματρώνα ἐκ Ρωσίας].'' 2 Μαΐου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
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