The Holy New Martyr John

Commemorated September 23

Born in a place called Konitsa in Albania, he was a Moslem of Moslem parents. Later, seeing the wonderful power of the Christian faith in various places and events, he was baptised. He was arrested for this and brought before the Turkish judge. Tortured for the Christian faith in Aetolia and beheaded in 1814, he cried out at the time of his death: "Remember me, O Lord, in Thy Kingdom!"

Source: Crkveni Kalendar