Right-Believing Right-Believing Prince Peter of Murom, in Monasticism David

CRITICAL ON IDENTIFICATION AND DATE: the card "David of Murom" has been identified as the monastic name of Right-Believing Prince Peter of Murom (husband of St. Fevronia) — the category "right-believing" matches this figure specifically, not the passion-bearer Gleb (also baptized David), whose category would be "martyr." The nonsensical life-years record "c. 1040 – c. 970 BC" (birth after death, and impossibly dated BC) has been replaced with the correct "d. 1228"; the feast date "December 26/January 8" has been corrected to the well-known June 25/July 8 — the joint feast of Peter and Fevronia, the basis of Russia's modern "Day of Family, Love and Fidelity."

Peter, second son of Yuri Vladimirovich, Prince of Murom, ascended the Murom throne in 1203. He fell ill with a leprosy-like disease that no physician could cure; in a vision he learned that Fevronia, the pious daughter of a Ryazan beekeeper from the village of Laskovo, could heal him. She healed him on condition of marriage; he married her despite the disparity in social rank.

Proud Murom boyars, unwilling to accept a low-born princess, forced the couple into exile, but the unrest that followed their departure compelled the boyars to recall them. They ruled with piety and mercy, becoming famed for charity. In old age they both took monastic vows in separate monasteries — he as David, she as Euphrosinia — praying to die on the same day. They died June 25, 1228, and were buried together per their wish. They were glorified at the Moscow Council of 1547.