Gorgi Kratovski, St. (Kratovo, 1497 – Sofia, 24/11. Ⅱ 1515) – Christian saint. His parents, the king of Dimitar and Sarah, told them from six years to study clergy, and then studied the goldsmith craft. After the death of his father, he went to Sofia in the head of High Priest Peter, where he continued to educate in faith and work as a blackberry. As a particularly seen and gifted citizen, at the age of 18, Turkish authorities tried to win him to receive the Muslim faith, and after decisively refused, he urged him as a nasted Muslim blasphor. The authorities did not accept the purchase from the priest Peter, but allowed the Muslim crowd to light it on the stake. When he burned the rope he was tied, he crossed and addressed Jesus Christ that he teaches his spirit. One of the present Ottomans struck him with a gun on his head and this died. The Ottomans refused to hand over him for burial his body, but in the fire crossing the animals so that his remains can not be recognized. But S “burned, and the body of the martyr remained unburned and a Christian night transferred to his home, and then in the Sofia Catholic Church” St. Great Maknica Mary “. The life and service was preserved from the modern Popoe (from OK. 1515-1523) and from Russian monks Ilija Pzkovski (1539) and Vasily (ⅹⅴⅰ c.). His earliest portrait is located in the church “St. Nicholas “in the village. Toplica, Demir Hisar (1541). Due to his martyr’s death, he was declared a saint from the Synod of the Ohrid Archbishopric (between 1547 and 1549). He was a patron of Kujundjija and the Kovakk Guild in Kratovo and Skopje. The first church dedicated him was built in his hometown (1925), and more recently in Detroit (1994). He was an inspiration for the drama “Gjorgje Krapot” by Serbian writer Gavro fresco St. Gorgi Kratovski, Church “St. Atanasius Alexandria “in the village. Kniche Miloradovic (Belgrade, 1892) and Bulgarian novelist Stanimir Iv. Topkov (Sofia, 1975). Lit.: Stoyan Novakova, Service and Life St. Rights Kratova, “Magical Serbian Student Companies”, 21, Belgrade, 1867, 97-156; Old Bulgarian literature, t. Iv. Zhitiyepatic creations. Cardage and Editorial Kliment Ivanova, Sofia, 1986, 291-308; Cvetan Grozdanov, martyrs from ⅹⅴ-century in the fresco painting of Macedonia, “articles”, MANU, Department for Social Sciences, Jenviv, 1, Skopje, 1993, 40; Dobrila Milovska – John such, the Macedonian grain literature IX-ⅹⅴⅰⅰⅰ century, Skopje, 1996, 62-67 and 141-158; Mihailo Georgievski, Macedonian saints, life and cult, Skopje, 1997, 167-181. S. Ml. Tane Stojcev Gjorgjiev, (Solole Duke)
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