The life of Inna, Pinna and Rimma
Word of their preaching and baptizing reached the local pagan chieftain, who had them seized and pressed them, by every means he could find, to renounce Christ and worship his gods. They would not. It was the depth of winter, and the river ran under thick ice. The chieftain's men drove stout posts into the frozen ground of the riverbed and bound the three men to them, leaving them in the freezing water until the cold itself took their lives. They are remembered as among the very first Slavic martyrs recorded in the history of the Church, and their relics, recovered afterward by the faithful, were later carried to the port of Alushta in the Crimea.
