Peter of Tripoli

Peter of Tripoli was a new martyr of the eighteenth century, from Tripoli in the Peloponnese. According to Greek sources he went to Asia Minor, perhaps because of the Orlov revolt of 1770, and was arrested by the Turks at Ödemis, south-⁠east of Smyrna. He was asked to abandon the faith of his ancestors and accept Islam, but he stayed faithful to Christ. In 1776 he was executed (one source says hanged, another beheaded) and received the crown of martyrdom. His only known icon is in the metropolitan church of Saint Basil in Tripoli. He is remembered on 1 January.