WITNESSES FOR CHRIST: orthodox christian neomartyrs of the ottoman period, 1437-1860

Lives of almost two hundred faithful, most of humble station, who gave their lives for Christ.“One of the remarkable aspects of this martyrology isthe broad spectrum from which the neomartyrs weredrawn. Although many were clerics or monks, asmight be expected, others are...people in ordinary occupations, men and women who probably had very little formal education in Orthodoxy, but whose attachment to Christ led them to choose a painful death rather thanabandon their religion…”—Charles A. Frazee, The Catholic Historical Review