Zacharias of Corinth

Holy Hieromartyr Zacharias of Corinth was bishop of Corinth and suffered at the hands of the Turks in the year 1684.

The Muslim Turks slandered him, saying that he had carried on a secret correspondence with the Franks, whom he was said to have called to Corinth, promising to help them take the city. The Muslims fell with fury upon the Christian bishop and took him, chained and beaten, to judgment. The judge, without any questioning, asked Saint Zacharias to accept Islam and, hearing the negative answer, ordered him to be cruelly beaten. Then the confessor of Christ was shut in prison, where the fanatics did not cease to torment him. On the third Sunday after the Sunday of the Cross, Saint Zacharias was beheaded.

The saint is commemorated on 12 April, in the new style.