The title of New Martyr or Neomartyr ( el, νεο-, ''neo''-, the prefix for "new"; and μάρτυς, ''martys'', "witness") is conferred in some denominations of
Christianity
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to distinguish more recent
martyrs
A martyr (, ''mártys'', "witness", or , ''marturia'', stem , ''martyr-'') is someone who suffers persecution and death for advocating, renouncing, or refusing to renounce or advocate, a religious belief or other cause as demanded by an external ...
and
confessors from the old martyrs of the
persecution in the Roman Empire. Originally and typically, it refers to victims of
Islam
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ic persecution.
[.]
The earliest source to use the term ''neomartys'' is the ''Narrationes'' of
Anastasius of Sinai, who died around 700. The title continued to be used for the next three hundred years to refer to victims of
Umayyad
The Umayyad Caliphate (661–750 CE; , ; ar, ٱلْخِلَافَة ٱلْأُمَوِيَّة, al-Khilāfah al-ʾUmawīyah) was the second of the four major caliphates established after the death of Muhammad. The caliphate was ruled by the ...
and
Abbasid
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persecution. It was mainly used in
Greek
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**Proto-Greek language, the assumed last common ancestor ...
sources, but is occasionally found in
Arabic
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,
Georgian
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** Georgians, an indigenous Caucasian ethnic group
** Georgian language, a Kartvelian language spoken by Georgians
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and
Syriac Syriac may refer to:
*Syriac language, an ancient dialect of Middle Aramaic
*Sureth, one of the modern dialects of Syriac spoken in the Nineveh Plains region
* Syriac alphabet
** Syriac (Unicode block)
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sources. Between the 11th and 14th centuries, the
Byzantine–Seljuq wars also generated a number of neomartyrs.
[
The ]Greek Orthodox Church
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traditionally gives the title to those who had been tortured and executed during Ottoman rule in Greece
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in order to avoid forced conversion to Islam. This meaning is the dominant one, so much so that pre-Ottoman use of the term has been almost ignored in academia. Sectarian conflicts of the 19th century within the Ottoman Empire
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and Communist persecution in eastern Europe also generated saints considered neomartyrs.[
]
List of new martyrs
Under Umayyad rule
*Euphemia of Damascus
Euphemia ( el, Εὐφημία; "well-spoken f), known as the All-praised in the Eastern Orthodox Church, was a virgin, who was martyred for her faith at Chalcedon in 303 AD.
According to tradition, Euphemia was arrested for refusing to offer ...
(before 700)[
*]Sixty Martyrs of Jerusalem
60 (sixty) () is the natural number following 59 (number), 59 and preceding 61 (number), 61. Being three times 20, it is called ''wikt:threescore, threescore'' in older literature (''Kopa (number), kopa'' in Slavic, ''Schock'' in Germanic).
In ma ...
(725)[
]
Under Abbasid rule
*Elias of Heliopolis
Elias of Heliopolis (759–779), also called Elias of Damascus, was a Syrian carpenter and Christian martyr revered as a saint in the Eastern Orthodox and Syriac Orthodox churches. He is known from a Greek hagiography.
Dates
The ''Prosopographi ...
(779)[
*]Romanus
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People
* Adrianus Romanus, Flemish mathematician (1561–1615)
*Aquila Romanus, Latin grammarian
*Giles of Rome, Aegidius Romanus, medieva ...
(780)[
*]Theophilus the New
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(780s)[
*]Abo of Tbilisi
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(786)[
* Bacchus-Ḍaḥḥāk (786/7)][
* George-Muzāḥim (978)][
]
Under Turkish rule
The first new martyrs were recorded after the Seljuk invasion of Asia Minor (11th century). In the Eastern Orthodox Church
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, the third Sunday after Pentecost
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is known as the "Commemoration of All New Martyrs of the Turkish Yoke."
*Ahmed the Calligrapher
Ahmet the Calligrapher was a seventeenth-century Ottoman Empire official venerated as a Christian saint. According to Christian beliefs he converted to Christianity and was martyred on 3 May 1682; thus he is commemorated as a martyr on this day ...
or ''Ahmed Kalfas'')
* Akylina of Chalkidike
*Anthimos the Georgian Anthimus, also spelled Anthimos, Anthinos or Anthinus, is a Greek name for males. In Italian and Spanish, the name is rendered as Antimo.
The name may refer to:
*Anthimus of Nicomedia, bishop and martyr who died during a persecution in the earl ...
*Aquilina of Thessalonica
Saint Aquilina of Thessalonica (also spelled ''Akylina'') was an 18th-century Greek Orthodox Christian saint and martyr.
She was born in Zagliberi, a village near Thessalonica in Greece at a time when Greece was under the rule of the Ottoman Empir ...
* Athanasios the Neomartyr
* Boris the Pomak
* Chrestos the Albanian
*Chrysostomos of Smyrna
Chrysostomos Kalafatis ( el, Χρυσόστομος Καλαφάτης; 8 January 1867 – 10 September 1922) known as Saint Chrysostomos of Smyrna, Chrysostomos of Smyrna and Metropolitan Chrysostom, was the Greek Orthodox metropolitan bishop o ...
*Constantin Brâncoveanu
Constantin Brâncoveanu (; 1654 – August 15, 1714) was Prince of Wallachia between 1688 and 1714.
Biography
Ascension
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* Constantine Hagarit
*Cosmas of Aetolia
Kosmas the Aetolian, sometimes Cosmas the Aetolian or Patrokosmas "Father Kosmas" ( el, Κοσμᾶς ὁ Αἰτωλός, ''Kosmas Etolos''; born between 1700 and 1714 – died 1779), was a monk in the Greek Orthodox Church. He is recognized as ...
*Cyril VI of Constantinople
Cyril VI ( el, Κύριλλος ΣΤ΄), lay name Konstantinos Serpetzoglou (Κωνσταντίνος Σερπεντζόγλου) was the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople between the years 1813 and 1818.
He was born in 1769 in Edirne, whe ...
, ethnomartyr
*Demetrios Doukas
Demetrios Doukas of Crete (, ; c.1480–c.1527) was a professor of Greek in Spain and teacher of many Spanish humanists. Originally a member of the Greek community in Venice (dating from the Fall of Constantinople, 1453), Ducas moved to Spain a ...
* Demetrios of Philadelphia
* Demetrios the Neomartyr
*Ephraim the Neomartyr St. Ephraim the Neomartyr, Ephraim the Martyr, or Ephraim of Mount Amomon (Greek: Άγιος Εφραίμ ο μάρτυρας / του Όρους των Αμώμων), believed to have lived from 1384 to 1426, is venerated as a martyr and miracle-wo ...
*Gabriel I of Pec
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*Patriarch Gabriel II of Constantinople
Gabriel II ( el, ), (? – 3 December 1659) was Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople for one week in 1657.
In 1659 he was hanged by the Ottoman Sultan for having baptized a converted Muslim, and after refusing to abjure his own Christian fai ...
*George of Ioannina
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* George Washington, First President of the United States
* George W. Bush, 43rd President ...
*George the New
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* George Washington, First President of the United States
* George W. Bush, 43rd Preside ...
*George of Kratovo
Saint George of Kratovo ( mk, Свети Ѓорѓи Кратовски, sr, Свети Ђорђе Кратовац, bg, Георги Софийски Нови, translit=Georgi Sofiyski Novi) was a writer and silversmith from Kratovo, North Mace ...
(d. 1515)
*Gregory V of Constantinople
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* Hasan
John Calphas ("the Apprentice")
*John of Ioannina
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* John (given name)
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John may also refer to:
New Testament
Works
* Gospel of John, a title often shortened to John
* First Epistle of John, often shortened to 1 John
* Second ...
, a.k.a. John the Tailor
*John the New of Suceava
John is a common English name and surname:
* John (given name)
* John (surname)
John may also refer to:
New Testament
Works
* Gospel of John, a title often shortened to John
* First Epistle of John, often shortened to 1 John
* Second ...
*Archbishop Kyprianos of Cyprus
Archbishop Kyprianos of Cyprus ( el, Αρχιεπίσκοπος Κύπρου Κυπριανός) was the head of the Cypriot Orthodox Church in the early 19th century at the time that the Greek War of Independence broke out.
Kyprianos was born i ...
* Makarios the Monk
*Michael Mavroudis
Michael Mavroudis ( el, Μιχαήλ Μαυρουδῆς) was a martyr
A martyr (, ''mártys'', "witness", or , ''marturia'', stem , ''martyr-'') is someone who suffers persecution and death for advocating, renouncing, or refusing to renounce ...
*Niketas the Young
* Paisius and Habakkuk
* Panteleimon Dousa
Paul of Constantinople
6/19 April 1683
* Paul the Russian
* Philothei
* Theocharis of Nevşehir (Neapoli)
*Teodor of Vršac
Teodor ( sr-cyr, Теодор; fl. 1594) was the Serbian Orthodox Bishop of Vršac (епископ вршачки), who in 1594 was the leader of the Banat Uprising against Ottoman occupation amidst the Long War (1593-1606). After talks with Sig ...
*Theodore Gabras Theodore Gabras ( el, Θεόδωρος Γαβρᾶς) was a Byzantine governor in the Pontus who was involved in a minor unsuccessful rebellion against the Emperor Alexios I Komnenos around the year 1091. Theodore Gabras is an Eastern Orthodox mart ...
* Theodore of Komogovina
* Thomas Paschidis
*Zlata of Meglen
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Under Communist rule
In the Russian Orthodox Church
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, the Sunday closest to 25 January (7 February on the Gregorian Calendar
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) is the "Sunday of the Holy New Martyrs and Confessors of Russia." The date of 25 January was chosen because that was the date in 1918 of the martyrdom of St. Vladimir (Bogoiavlensikii), Metropolitan
Metropolitan may refer to:
* Metropolitan area, a region consisting of a densely populated urban core and its less-populated surrounding territories
* Metropolitan borough, a form of local government district in England
* Metropolitan county, a typ ...
of Kiev
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, who is referred to as the "Protomartyr
A protomartyr (Koine Greek, ''πρότος'' ''prótos'' "first" + ''μάρτυρας'' ''mártyras'' "martyr") is the first Christian martyr in a country or among a particular group, such as a religious order. Similarly, the phrase the Protom ...
of the communist yoke in Russia."
* Alexander Hotovitzky
Saint Alexander Hotovitzky (or Hotovitsky) (1872-1937) was a Russian Orthodox hieromartyr.
He was ordained to the priesthood while working in the United States in the 1890s. He was ordered back to Europe in 1914, where we worked as a vicar in Be ...
* Anastasia Hendrikova
Countess Anastasia Vasilyevna Hendrikova (23 June 1887 – 4 September 1918), was a lady in waiting at the court of Tsar Nicholas II and Tsarina Alexandra. She was arrested by the Bolsheviks and shot to death outside Perm in the autumn of 1918.
...
* Andronic Nikolsky
Archbishop Andronik (also spelled Andronic; russian: Архиепископ Андроник, secular name Vladimir Alexandrovich Nikolsky, russian: Владимир Александрович Никольский; August 1, 1870 – July 7, 191 ...
* Bishop Arcadius Ostalsky,
* Bishop Arseny Zhadanovsky, who was the last abbot of the Chudov Monastery
The Chudov Monastery (russian: Чу́дов монасты́рь; more formally known as Alexius’ Archangel Michael Monastery) was founded in the Moscow Kremlin in 1358 by Metropolitan Alexius of Moscow. The monastery was dedicated to the mira ...
which was also destroyed
Bishop Basil (Preobrashensky) of Kineshma
* Archbishop Dimitry (Dobroserdov)
* Grand Duchess Elizabeth Fyodorovna
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* ''Elisabeth'' (s ...
and Nun Barbara
* Dr. Eugene Botkin
Yevgeny Sergeyevich Botkin (russian: Евгений Сергеевич Боткин; 27 March 1865 – 17 July 1918), commonly known as Eugene Botkin, was the court physician since 1908 for Tsar Nicholas II and Tsarina Alexandra. He sometimes ...
(see Romanov sainthood
The canonization of the Romanovs (also called "glorification" in the Russian Orthodox Church) was the elevation to sainthood of the last Imperial Family of Russia – Tsar Nicholas II, his wife Tsarina Alexandra, and their five children Olga, Tat ...
)
* Bishop Hermogenes (Dolganyov)
Georgiy Yefremovich Dolganyov (Георгий Ефремович Долганёв; 25 April 1858 – April 1918) was a prominent Russian Orthodox religious figure, a monarchist and anti-communist, who supported the Union of the Russian People and ...
* Metropolitan Benjamin of Petrograd
Benjamin of Petrograd (russian: Вениамин Петроградский, Veniamin Petrogradsky, – ), born Vasily Pavlovich Kazansky (russian: Василий Павлович Казанский), was a hieromartyr, a bishop in the Russian ...
* John Kochurov
Saint John Alexandrovich Kochurov (russian: Иоанн Александрович Кочуров), hieromartyr of the Bolshevik Revolution, Soviet revolution, was one of a number of young educated priests who came to the United States in the lat ...
of Tsarskoye Selo (First martyr of the Revolution)
* Archpries
John Vostorgov
1938
* Archimandrite Kronid Lubimov
* Archpries
Makary Kvitkin
* Margarete of Menzelinsk
Maria of Gatchina
c. 1930
23 June/6 July 1931
* Nicholas II of Russia
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with his immediate family and servants (see Romanov sainthood
The canonization of the Romanovs (also called "glorification" in the Russian Orthodox Church) was the elevation to sainthood of the last Imperial Family of Russia – Tsar Nicholas II, his wife Tsarina Alexandra, and their five children Olga, Tat ...
)
Fr. Nicholas Zagorovsky
1943 (confessor)
* Bishop Nikita Dilektorsky
Nikodim of Solovki
* Archbishop Nikolay Dobronravov
* Metropolitan Peter of Krutitsy
Peter of Krutitsy (Священному́ченик Пётр Крути́цкий, born Pyotr Fyodorovich Polyansky, Пётр Фёдорович Поля́нский; June 28, 1862 – September 27 O. S./October 10, 1937), was a Russian Orthodox ...
* Metropolitan Seraphim Chichagov
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of St. Petersburg
* Patriarch Tikhon
Tikhon of Moscow (russian: Тихон Московский, – ), born Vasily Ivanovich Bellavin (russian: Василий Иванович Беллавин), was a bishop of the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC). On 5 November 1917 ( OS) he was ...
, 1925 (confessor)
* Vladimir Beneshevich
Vladimir Nicolayevich Beneshevich (russian: Влади́мир Никола́евич Бенеше́вич; August 9, 1874 – January 17, 1938) was a Russian scholar of Byzantine history and canon law, and a philologer and paleographer of the ...
* Metropolitan Vladimir (Bogoyavlensky)
Vladimir (russian: Владимир), baptismal name: Vasily Nikiforovich Bogoyavlensky (russian: Василий Никифорович Богоявленский; 1 January 1848 – ), was a bishop of the Russian Orthodox Church. He was appoi ...
First hierarch martyred by the Bolsheviks.
* Bishop Platon (Kulbusch)
Platon, born Paul Kulbusch (also spelled ''Kuhlbusch'' or ''Kuldbush''; – 14 January 1919) was an Estonian bishop and the first Orthodox saint of Estonian ethnicity.
Under Nazism
* Alexander Schmorell
Alexander Schmorell (; russian: Александр Гугович Шморель, translit=Aleksandr Gugovich Shmorel', ; 16 September 1917 – 13 July 1943) was a Russian-German student at Munich University who, with five others, formed a resist ...
, member of the White Rose
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Resistance group
* Bishop Gorazd Gorazd is a given name. It is a Slavic version of the Hebrew given name Gilad which means Hill Of Testimony, Monument.
Notable people with the given name include:
*Gorazd Hiti (born 1948), Slovene ice hockey player
*Gorazd Kocijančič (born 19 ...
of Prague
* Archimandrite Grigol Peradze
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Li ...
* Maria Skobtsova
Maria Skobtsova (20 Old_Calendar.html"_;"title="_Old_Calendar">_Old_CalendarDecember_1891_–_31_March_1945),_known_as_Mother_Maria_(russian:_Мать_Мария),_Saint_Mary_(or_Mother_Maria)_of_Paris,_born_Elizaveta_Yurievna_Pilenko_(),_Kuz ...
of Paris and Ravensbrück, nun
Serbia
The feast of "All New Martyrs of Serbia" is celebrated on .
* Đorđe Bogić
Đorđe Bogić (Serbian Cyrillic: Ђорђе Богић; 6 February 1911 – 17 June 1941) was a protopresbyter in the Serbian Orthodox Church and the parish priest of the Orthodox church in Našice.
He was canonized by the Serbian Orthodox Church ...
* Gorazd Pavlik
* Joanikije Lipovac
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* Saint Prince Lazar
* Petar Zimonjić
Petar Zimonjić ( sr-cyr, Петар Зимоњић; 24 June 1866 – June 1941) was a bishop of the Serbian Orthodox Church serving as the metropolitan of Dabar-Bosnia in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia from 1920 until the beginning of World War II.
...
* Platon Jovanović
Hieromartyr Platon, Bishop of Banja Luka (born Milivoje Jovanović; 29 September 1874 – 5 May 1941) was a Serbian Orthodox cleric who served as the Bishop of Banja Luka between 1940 and 1941. His tenure ended in May 1941, when he was abducted ...
* Rafailo of Šišatovac
* Sava Trlajić
Sava Trlajić (Serbian Cyrillic: Сава Трлајић; 19 July 1884 – August 1941) was a Bishop of the Serbian Orthodox Church serving as Bishop of the Eparchy of Gornji Karlovac in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia from 1938 until the beginning of W ...
* Vukašin Mandrapa
Vukašin Mandrapa ( sr-Cyrl, Вукашин Мандрапа; died 1942/43) is a saint and a martyr of the Serbian Orthodox Church canonized as Saint Vukašin of Klepci (''Свети Вукашин из Клепаца'').
His surname and place ...
Boxer Rebellion
is celebrated as the feast of the "New Martyrs of China Slain During the Boxer Rebellion
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"
* Ia the Teacher
* Holy Martyrs of China
Austria-Hungary
*Hieromartyr Maximus Sandovic
Maxim Timofeyevich Sandovich (russian: Максим Тимофеевич Сандович, pl, Maksym Sandowicz; 1 February 1888 - 6 August 1914) is a New Martyr and Orthodox saint. known as saint hieromartyr Maxim of Gorlice ( pl, Maksym Gorlick ...
, 24August/6 September 1914
Post-Soviet Russia
* Daniel Sysoyev
Daniel Alexeyevich Sysoev (russian: Даниил Алексеевич Сысоев; 1974–2009) was a married Russian Orthodox Church, Russian Orthodox priest, the rector of St. Thomas' church in southern Moscow and a prominent missionary.
He ...
Muscovite priest and missionary assassinated by an Islamist militant
* Yevgeny Rodionov
Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Rodionov (russian: Евге́ний Алекса́ндрович Родио́нов; 23 May 1977 – 23 May 1996) was a Russian soldier who was taken prisoner of war by Chechen rebels in the First Chechen War and later ex ...
, a Russian soldier who fought in , was taken prisoner, tortured and eventually murdered for his refusal to convert to Islam[
]
the Russian Orthodox Church
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has not glorified either of the martyrs listed above, but each has received widespread popular veneration.
See also
*Aftermath of World War II
The aftermath of World War II was the beginning of a new era started in late 1945 (when World War II ended) for all countries involved, defined by the decline of all colonial empires and simultaneous rise of two superpowers; the Soviet Union (US ...
*Hieromartyr
In the Eastern Orthodox tradition, a hieromartyr is a martyr (one who dies for his beliefs) who was a bishop or priest. Analogously, a monk who is a priest is known as a hieromonk.
See also
*New Martyr
The title of New Martyr or Neomartyr ( el ...
References
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Further reading
*''Blackwell Dictionary of Eastern Christianity'', 341-43
*Sahner, Christian C. ''Christian Martyrs under Islam Religious Violence and the Making of the Muslim World''. Princeton University Press, 2018.
*Vaporis, Rev. Nomikos Michael. ''Witnesses for Christ: Orthodox Christian Neomartyrs of the Ottoman Period 1437-1860''
External links
Calendar of Orthodox Church England contains NeoMartyrs
Eastern Orthodox martyrs of the Late Modern era
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20th-century Eastern Orthodox martyrs
Types of saints