Wednesday, 28 April 2010 Holy New Martyr John The Tailor Of Thasos 1652

Holy New Martyr John The Tailor Of Thasos 1652
John was from the village of Maries of Thasos. At the age of 14 some of his fellow countrymen brought him to Constantinople, someplace he was led to some Christian in Galata to learn to be a variety.

One day his mentor sent him to a Jewish retailer to buy lock. John had a battle with the retailer completed the assessment. Throughout this the Hotza was natural ability from the minaret for the noon-time prayer. The Jewish retailer took avoid of the freedom and began to cry out to the Turks:

"Don't you get tangled this kid that he is cursing your religious conviction and your pilgrimage?"

As right away as the Turks heard this they understood the Jew, and they under arrest the youth John, occur to him cruelly and took him to Beziri, someplace they testified that he cursed their religious conviction. The Saint swore that he was slandered by the Jew. Beziri, as right away as he saw that he was trade with a child, felt penitent and told him:

"Receive and become a Turk, that your life be sweet and that I may keep in check you board to me, to celebration you and make you intense."

He tried with these promises and flatteries to detachment him from Christ. So far the blessed child responded: "I would never deny my sweetest Jesus Christ, even if you be a burden on me a thousand tortures, or even if you fixed me your whole official."

Then Beziri controlled that they behead John. They led him to the agora, put forward someplace the fur workshops were, in front elevation of the sponge down, with a leg on each side of from the source, and delivered him to the killer. He kneeled and, wishing to terrify him, swung the sword and hit him on the neck, acid him ever so petite. Seeing in the end that the Saint was sloppy death with life-size joy, not good enough quivering at all, he swung the sword with acuteness and beheaded him.

Subsequently the 14-year-old John from Thasos, the variety, received the covering of martyrdom, on December 20, 1652.

His biography was in print by John Kariophyllis and Meletios Syrigos.