George Dalgodreyski

Priest Georgi Dalgodreyski was a priest of the village of Novo Selo (today Apriltsi), killed by the Turks on 9 May 1876, in the massacre at the Holy Trinity Monastery. He was canonized as a holy martyr by the Bulgarian Orthodox Church on 3 April 2011; he is commemorated on 26 April (9 May by the new calendar), together with the other martyrs of Novo Selo.

Those who wrote his life called him "a soldier of Christ, like a second Saint George," who rose up not only against the imagined enemy but against the living enemy of the Cross. When the monastery was attacked, he barricaded himself on the upper floor of a building, to hold back the invaders and give those fleeing time to be saved or to hide; the enraged Circassians who entered through the monastery gate cut him to pieces. He did not defend himself, but guarded the house of the Lord and accepted the cutting as a gift, knowing that through it he gained eternal life. His body rests today, with those of the other martyrs, in the monastery church.