Triantaphyllos the Martyr (1663 – August 8, 1680) is a

martyr A martyr (, ''mártys'', 'witness' Word stem, stem , ''martyr-'') is someone who suffers persecution and death for advocating, renouncing, or refusing to renounce or advocate, a religious belief or other cause as demanded by an external party. In ...

and saint of the

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. He was born in Zagora, in then Ottoman-controlled

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, and was taken captive by the Turks one day while he was working as a fisherman. He was tortured when he refused to renounce his Christian faith and convert to

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and was eventually beheaded by his captors.Child Saints.com

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Bibliography

* Παπαδόπουλος, Χρυσόστομος (1922). ''Οι νεομάρτυρες''

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(in Greek). Athens. 1663 births 1680 deaths Greek Orthodox child saints 17th-century Christian saints Saints of Ottoman Greece Greek children Christian saints killed by Muslims Christians executed for refusing to convert to Islam Persecution of Christians in the Ottoman Empire Persecution of Eastern Orthodox Christians Greek saints of the Eastern Orthodox Church New Martyrs People from Zagora, Greece {{saint-stub