Statue of 16th-century Saint George of Kratovo (Saint George The New of Sofia) in Skopje, Macedonia
Saint George of Kratovo or Saint New George of Sofia was a young silversmith from Kratovo. His spiritual guide, host and bible teacher was Peja, an Eastern Orthodox priest active in the Sanjak of Sofia (in the Ottoman Empire, now Bulgaria). George was burnt alive on a pyre on 11 February 1515 in Sofia, after he refused to convert to Islam. This is why he was proclaimed a New Martyr. Peja wrote the liturgical rite and biography (zitije) on George between 1515 and 1523, in the Serbian recension of Church Slavonic, per Serbian sources, and in Bulgarian recension, per Bulgarian sources. The work was published by Serbian intellectual Stojan Novakovic in 1867, transcribed from a manuscript held in the National Library of Serbia in Belgrade. Milan Milicevic wrote a work on George in 1885.[8] In Bulgaria St. George the New became especially honored during the Bulgarian National Revival, after Paisius of Hilendar included him in the list of Bulgarian saints, in his Istoriya Slavyanobolgarskaya, written in 1762. In 1855 Nikola Karastoyanov from Samokov printed the Life of St. George the New, based on a manuscript kept in the metropolitan library of Sofia. During the first half of the 19th century St. George the New became popular also among Bulgarian painters and was depicted in many Churches.
Size: 3700px × 5550px
Location: Dimitar Vlahov Walk, Skopje, Macedonia, Balkans, Southern Europe
Photo credit: © DE ROCKER / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
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