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August 14th
Troparion
O Holy New Martyrs tortured by the godless enemy, intercede for us with the Holy Trinity and ask of Christ God great mercy for our souls!

Across the front of the multitude of martyrs in this icon is depicted:  Holy New Martyr Metropolitan Nazar of Kutaisi-Gaenati; priests St. German, St. Ieroteos, & St. Simon; and archdeacon St. Besarion.  These foremost five were dragged from their beds in the night, bound, beaten, and then sentenced to death by the Troika on August 14, 1924.  They were shot to death in the Sapichkhia Forest.  They were murdered for being known nationalists and for upholding the Orthodox Faith by protecting holy things from destruction at the hands of the Bolsheviks who were then occupying Georgia.  In 1994, the full Ecclesiastical Council of the Georgian Church canonized them along with all those Georgians that were killed at the hands of the Bolsheviks for their Faith.  

This Icon is by the hand of Lasha Kintsurashvili.  The inscription is in Georgian.  

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