The New Martyr Anastasius, a Bulgarian, was born in 1774 in
the Strumnitsk diocese, in the village of Radovicha. His parents gave
him over to military studies. When the youth was twenty years old, he
happened to be with his teacher in Thessalonica. The master wanted to
sell some Turkish clothes without paying the customary duty. He told his
disciple to dress himself as a Turk and go into the city. The
collectors of the duty stopped him and demanded the written receipt of
duty payment. The youth answered that he was a Turk. Then the collectors
demanded that he recite the salutation with the Moslem prayer. The
youth became confused and quiet. They ordered him to appear before the
commander, who in interrogating the martyr suggested that he become a
Moslem. The youth refused, and they led him away to the chief
tax-collector.
The official tried at first to flatter, then to
threaten the martyr, who admitted his civil guilt, but would not agree
to betray the holy Faith. The tax-collector made this known to the
mufti, who in turn answered, “You have in one hand the sword, in the
other the law, use what you wish.”
He knew that by law the
tax-collector ought to collect the tax from the youth, but then by
judgment of the mufti he would not be a follower of Mohammed, armed with
a sword. When he had received such an answer, the commander of the
haraje sent the youth to the local mullah together with five Turks, who
were obliged to testify that the Christian had blasphemed the Moslem
religion.
To the accusations of blasphemy against Mohammed by
these witnesses, the youth honestly answered that he did not blaspheme
him, but he would allow having shown disrespect to Moslem customs. They
subjected him to torture and condemned him to hanging. Along the way,
they continued to urge the martyr to renounce his faith, but bleeding
and exhausted, he fell upon the wayside and died on August 29, 1794.
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