Jonah of Lipsi

The Holy Venerable Martyrs of Lipsi are five monks who suffered martyrdom on the island of Lipsi over almost a century and a half, between 1558 and 1696. They are remembered together, under the name of Jonah of Lipsi, on 11 July (new style), on the Sunday after 10 July.

The first was the monk Neophytus of the island of Amorgos, who died on 6 April 1558. Jonah of the island of Leros was killed on 28 February 1561. Jonah Garbis of the island of Nisyros suffered in April 1635, and Parthenius of Philippopolis, the city now called Plovdiv in Bulgaria, died in 1696. These four were killed by the Turks.

The fifth, another monk named Neophytus, met his death at the hands of pirates on 8 December 1609. The source of these facts says nothing more about any of them.