New Martyr
Peter the New
A hieromartyr of Constantinople, commemorated in the Greek synaxarion as Peter the New.
- Era
- unknown
- Place
- Constantinople
- Order
- Martyrs
Life
Saint Peter the New, hieromartyr, was a priest and suffered shortly after the fall of Constantinople, at a young age, at Trebizond. He has no known day of commemoration.
The sung service and the canon of the saint, a work of the Great Rhetor Manuel, are preserved in codex 512 of the Iviron Monastery. The kontakion says that his honourable contest gladdened the hearts of the faithful and brought down the haughty brow of the tyrants, for which he received a crown from God.