Martyr
Athanasius Todoran
Peasant of Bichigiu
A peasant of Bichigiu who suffered in 1763 for the cause of the Năsăud border guards, canonized in 2007.
- Feast
- November 12old style November 25
- Reposed
- 176318th century
- Place
- Salva
- Order
- Martyrs
Life
Saint Athanasius Todoran (Tudoran), martyr, was a peasant of Bichigiu, a village of the commune of Telciu, in Bistrița-Năsăud County. He suffered in the year 1763 for the cause of the Năsăud soldiers, recruits of the 2nd Romanian Border Regiment of Transylvania. The place linked with his death is Salva.
The Romanian Orthodox Church canonized him in 2007.
According to our source, he was born in 1659, which would mean a life of over a hundred years, so the year of his birth is uncertain. The sources do not say more about his life.
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