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ΠΕΡΑ ΑΠΟ ΤΟ ΑΤΟΜΟ
Για τον άγιο Γκόραζντ της Τσεχίας (νεομάρτυρα από τους Ναζί) ελληνικά εδώ.

 

Bishop Gorazd of Prague given name Matěj Pavlík (May 26, 1879 – September 4, 1942), was the hierarch of the revived Orthodox Church in Moravia, the Church of Czechoslovakia, after World War I. 

During World War II, having provided refuge for the assassins of SS-Obergruppenfuhrer Reinhard Heydrich, called The Hangman of Prague, in the cathedral of Saints Cyril and Methodius in Prague, Gorazd took full responsibility for protecting the patriots after the Schutzstaffel found them in the crypt of the cathedral. This act guaranteed his execution, thus his martyrdom, during the reprisals that followed. 

His feast day is celebrated on August 22 (OC) or September 4 (NC).

 

See:

Orthodox New Martyrs in France vs Nazi

Theotokos vs Nazi

Saint Charalambos of Magnesia (vs Nazi)
Saints Cyril and Methodius, the brothers who created an alphabet