The life of St George the New at Sofia
Some of them set about winning him over, and put on his head the red cap their own men wear going in to prayer. He threw it on the ground. They beat him and brought him before the governor, and when he would not yield they built a fire in the city and threw him into it living, and heaped the bodies of dogs upon him so that Christians should not find what was left. Rain came and put the fire out. When it grew dark the place shone, and a priest was given leave to take up the relics, and the metropolitan came with his clergy and carried them to the church of Saint George in that city. Long after they were raised from the grave and laid in the church, and it is that day the Church keeps here.
