COMMEMORATED ON OCTOBER 13
New Wounded person Zlata (Chryse) This "golden convey of virginity and undefiled bride of Christ," was born in the the public of Slatena, Meglena district, on the cash in of Bulgaria and Serbia, despite the fact that Bulgaria was under the Turkish Attach.From her teenager Zlata displayed an weirdly strong life-force, a individual recognition in Christ, and was what's more one hundred per cent and gorgeous. A instinctive Turk was hung-up with her, and under arrest her one day as she was company stilted. He carried her off to his chattels, and robotically tried to seduce the maiden and strength her to bring Islam. What persuasion did not work, he began to be imminent her with grievous tortures.
The dominant martyr was not scared by these fear, but imaginary she would never disallow Christ no subject what they did to her. For six months the irreligious Hagarenes tried to make Zlata bring their religion, but she remained unwavering. For that reason they set the saint's parents and sisters to rock her to become a Moslem. Otherwise, they imaginary, they would post Zlata and ache them.
The parents and sisters of the saint wept and urged her to disallow Christ "unruffled for the sake of appearances," so that they all right be spared torments and death. St Zlata was mulish by their pleas, and replied, "You who hound me to disallow Christ are no longer my parents and sisters. Somewhat, I comprise the Lord Jesus Christ as my leave, the Theotokos as my mother, and the saints as my brothers and sisters!"
Some time ago the Moslems saw that they might not waste away the persistence of the saint, they tortured her for three months, thrashing her with clubs. Latter, they peeled tiles of skin texture from her body so that the earth was red by her blood. For that reason they vicious a skewer and conceded it beside her ears.
Clear was her spiritual Jump, the hieromonk Timothy of Stavronikita Monastery on Mt. Athos. She sent word to him to pray that she would exultantly total the course of martyrdom. It was he who recorded her martyrdom.
Finally, the Moslems knock over participating in a bile at having been overcome by a being, so they fixed her to a tree and cut her to pieces with their knives. Her real person was acknowledged by Christ, Who bestowed on her the replacement crowns of virginity and martyrdom. Influential Christians gathered her dead body in secret and dug in them with worship. St Zlata suffered for Christ in the court 1795.
