John of Thasos

Holy New Martyr John of Thasos was a young man born in 1638 and put to death as a martyr at Constantinople in the year 1652, in the time of Ottoman rule, that is at fourteen years old. He came from the island of Thasos, in northern Greece.

The sources at hand do not preserve details of the circumstances of his martyrdom. The Church counts him among the new martyrs who confessed Christ after the fall of Constantinople.