Holy Martyr John the New of Suceava

Life

A nobleman from Trebizond. Accused by a certain envious Latin, he suffered for Christ in the year 1492 in the city of Akkerman. After tortures because he would not adopt the Persian faith (for the city governor was an adherent of that faith), Saint John was bound by the feet to a horse and dragged through the city. A certain malicious Jew, seeing him, rushed up and slew him. That night many saw a pillar of fire over his body and three light-bearing men around it. Later the Moldavian voivode Ioalexander transferred his honorable body with great honors to the city of Suceava and buried it in the metropolitan cathedral, where it rests to this day and miraculously saves people from various afflictions and diseases. He honorably suffered and was glorified on June 2, 1492.