New Martyr Theocharis from Neapolis,Cappadocia: In 1740, the Ottoman Empire was at war & Sultan Ahmet ordered that all the male children of Christians be taken off to army camps. Theochari was taken into service & kept his faith. The cadi's wife was so impressed with him, they wanted him to marry their daughter & convert to Islam, he refused. He was sentenced to death by starvation and later stoned him and hung him on a birch tree & now a place of pilgrimage for Christians and Muslims alike.
