St George the New of Sofia: a martyr for the faith burned by the Turks for refusing to adopt Islam
Journal: Institute of Slavic Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences eBooks
Year: 2020

The article talks about the Bulgarian youth George, executed by the Turks in 1515 in Sofia for refusing to accept Islam. His veneration quickly spread to the Balkans and just as quickly spread on Russian territory by word of mouth. Just a quarter of a century later Athonite monks Prokhor and Mitrophan spoke about the tragic death of the Martyr in Novgorod to Archbishop Macarius, and he told the priest of his home Church, hieromonk Eliyah to make a Life of George the New using the information gat