Hieromartyr
Neycho of Batak
the Priest
A priest of Batak, a hieromartyr honored together with the other martyrs of Batak.
Life
Holy Hieromartyr Neycho of Batak was a priest in the town of Batak, in the Rhodope Mountains, and is honoured by the Bulgarian Orthodox Church together with the other martyrs of Batak. They fell in 1876, after the failure of the April Uprising against Ottoman rule, when thousands of Bulgarians, among them women and children, were killed at Batak.
The Bulgarian Orthodox Church canonized those killed at Batak and Novo Selo in April 2011, in the Cathedral of Saint Alexander Nevsky in Sofia, after a memorial service on the eve. The sources at hand preserve no details of the priest Neycho's own life and give him no day of his own.
Commemorated the same day May 4
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