New Martyr
Demetrios Begiazis of Lesbos
New Martyr of Agiasos, Lesbos
A new martyr of Agiasos on Lesbos, who died a martyr at Kasaba in Asia Minor in 1816.
Life
Holy New Martyr Demetrios Begiazis of Lesbos was a youth of eighteen from Agiasos on the island of Lesbos. He suffered for the faith at Kasaba in Asia Minor in 1816 (by some sources 1819), together with Anastasios Paneras, aged twenty, from Asomatoi.
The two worked there as basket makers. Alongside their trade they preached the Gospel to Christians living under Turkish rule. For this they were arrested, imprisoned and cruelly tortured, and because they went on confessing and preaching, they were hanged beneath a plane tree.
A large church was built at Agiasos in the name of both saints, where their memory is kept on 11 August (new style).
Commemorated the same day August 11
Nephon II of ConstantinopleSaint · Patriarch of ConstantinopleAug 11
Susanna of RomeVenerable MartyrAug 11
Alexander the Charcoal-burnerHieromartyr · Bishop of Comana in PontusAug 11
Tiburtius of RomeMartyr · Martyr of RomeAug 11
Euplus of CataniaMartyr · Deacon of CataniaAug 11
Basil and Theodore of the Kiev CavesHoly Venerable Martyrs · Monks of the Kiev CavesAug 11
John of SviatohirskVenerable · Recluse of Sviatohirsk MonasteryAug 11- Maximus of Asia MinorMartyrAug 11
- Alexander of RomeMartyrAug 11
- Anastasios PanerasNew MartyrAug 11
AttractaVenerableAug 11- BanbhnatVenerableAug 11