"Behold, all my fortunes and all I had, I have lost! Let us not lose our souls. Be brave and manly, my beloved! Ignore death. Look at how much Christ, our Savior, has endured for us and with what shameful death he died. Firmly believe in this and do not move, nor leave your faith for this life and this world." 

—Saint Constantine Brancoveanu, on this day in 1714 before him and his four sons were martyred by the Ottoman Sultan

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