Peter the New

Peter the New, Bishop of Gortyna in Crete, is commemorated on 14 July as a martyr, put to death by the cutting off of his legs. He is locally honoured, with no known canonization; the sources we have do not give his age.

The synaxarion says only that the holy martyr Peter the New met his end by the cutting off of his legs. Some codices say he was Bishop of Crete, hence the title Bishop of Gortyna, the ancient capital of the island. Nothing else is known of his life: neither his birthplace, nor the time of his ministry, nor the circumstances in which he was seized.