This thread is about the sharing of information about the martyr saints of the time of ottoman slavery canonized by the orthodox church
Pic: St. Georgi Novi Sofiiski(Kratovski)(1497-1515) Burned on the stake for refusing to convert to Islam
>A goldsmith by trade, a kadi(sharia court >judge) tried to trick him to convert to islam by >promising him to become his sucessor. >Georgi Novi Sofiiski refused the offer, and was >burned at the stake by an angry muslim mob >near the Sofia church St. George.
St. Nikolai Sofiiski(?-1555) >A shoemaker, the turks get him drunk and >while delirious, they circumcise him and >convince him to convert. However, when he >gets sober, he wants to become a christian >again. Because of that, the turks take him to >a sharia court. They try to convince him to >remain muslim, but after failing to do so, they >torture him, but he refuses to bow down to >their demands. In the end, he is stoned as a >punishment for apostasy from Islam.
>A peasant from Varna, trained as a monk in Athos, but left the monastery . Travelled to Constantinopol, and then to Smyrna, where he converted to islam. However, after his circmcision, he regrets his decision. The 15th day after his apostasy, he was taken to a sharia court, where he threw away his turban and proclaimed that he was a christian. At first they threatened him, then they offered him riches and gifts. He still refused to stay muslim, and all he wanted was to die for Christ. The turks were stunned by his audacity, and when the day came for him to be beheaded, most of the muslims hesitated to fulfill the sentence. In the end he was beheaded by a criminal.
Leo Russell
>people literally died to believe in one fairytale over another
Jack Turner
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Nolan Cooper
bump34353
Hudson Cox
>s*fiacucks now started calling themselves saints on top of everything shops gonna shop
Sebastian Clark
St. Anastasii Strumishki(1774- 8 august 1794)
Born in the city of Radovish in the Struma Episcopy, the saint traveled to thessaloniki to become an apprentice. One day, dressed as a turk, he tried to pass goods through the customs. To proove that he's muslim, the turks made him recite a sura in the quran. He refused, and after they found out that he was a christian, they try to convince him to convert to islam. they even send him to a kadi that also fails to convert him. After that they throw him in a cell where he suffers 3 days of torture. When that fails, the muslims send him a to a mullah. When the mullah failed to convince him to convert they sentence him to hanging, but he dies from beating from the muslim mobs on the way to the gallows.
Camden Watson
stop disrespecting your country's martyrs.
Owen Phillips
How does the Greek/Bulgaria/Russian etc churches even "canonize" someone as a saint? Do the patriarch of each sub-region just get together and vote on it? Also, considering they are all Eastern-Orthodox are those saints respected by everyone?For example, should a saint canonized by the Bulgarian church be revered by the Russians, a Russian saint by the Greeks, etc or it it just a local thing?
Parker Phillips
bump
Jaxon Thomas
,.,
Chase Foster
>a talking snake >people died over this
Sebastian Williams
PLS RESPOND
Levi Morgan
They usually don't get sainted to start with, just declared "passion bearers" but the regular Orthodox doesn't just call them saints because it's expedient. But it's usually confined to the local Patriarchate
Ayden Roberts
lol
Ian Moore
great post
Caleb Hall
Constantin Brâncoveanu and his sons.
>On 15 August 1714, the Feast of the Dormition, when Constantin Brâncoveanu was also celebrating his 60th birthday, he and his four sons and his advisor Ianache were brought before Sultan Ahmed III of Turkey. Diplomatic representatives of Austria, Russia, France and England were also present. After all of his fortune has been seized, in exchange for the life of his family he was asked to renounce the Orthodox Christian faith. He reportedly said: ″Behold, all my fortunes and all I had, I have lost! Let us not lose our souls. Be brave and manly, my beloved! Ignore death. Look at how much Christ, our Savior, has endured for us and with what shameful death he died. Firmly believe in this and do not move, nor leave your faith for this life and this world.″ After this, his four sons, Constantin, Ștefan, Radu and Matei and advisor Ianache were beheaded in front of their father. [2]
>History also that the smallest child, Matei (12 years old) was so frightened after seeing the bloodbath and the heads of his three brothers that he started crying and asking his father to let him renounce Christianity and convert to Islam as the Sultan Ahmed III had demanded. At that moment, Constantin Brâncoveanu said: "Of our kind none have lost their faith. It is better to die a thousand times than to leave your ancient faith just to live few more years on earth." Matei listened and offered his head. After Brâncoveanu himself was decapitated, their heads were impaled on javelins and displayed in a procession. Their bodies were left before the gate and later on thrown into the waters of the Bosphorus. [3]
Why are you so butthurt about a hat? Why was atheism so weak that it could be brought to its knees by a single article of clothing?
Adam Stewart
Very interesting Ty for contributing to the thread
Are there any other well documented romanian martyr saints?
Robert Ross
>St. Nikolai Sofiiski(?-1555) >>A shoemaker, the turks get him drunk and >while delirious, they circumcise him and >convince him to convert. However, when he >gets sober, he wants to become a christian >again. Because of that, the turks take him to >a sharia court. They try to convince him to >remain muslim, but after failing to do so, they >torture him, but he refuses to bow down to >their demands. In the end, he is stoned as a >punishment for apostasy from Islam.
