Holy Martyr Lazarus the New

Life

This new martyr, Lazarus, was a Bulgarian by origin, from Gabrovo. As a young man he left his birthplace and went to Anatolia. In a certain village called Soma, Lazarus tended sheep. But as a Christian he provoked the wrath of the Turks against himself, and was cast into prison by a certain aga. After long torments and inhuman tortures, which Lazarus heroically endured out of love for Christ, this young martyr was slain on the 23rd of April, 1802, in his twenty-eighth year. The Lord received him into His eternal courts and glorified him in heaven and on earth. At the relics of Saint Lazarus many miracles have occurred.