{"id":1400,"date":"2013-07-01T13:38:36","date_gmt":"2013-07-01T13:38:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/?p=1400"},"modified":"2015-01-24T13:43:42","modified_gmt":"2015-01-24T13:43:42","slug":"saint-theodore-of-vrsac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/saint-theodore-of-vrsac\/","title":{"rendered":"Saint Theodore of Vrsac"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2109\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2109\" style=\"width: 228px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/saint-theodore-of-vrsac\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-2109  \" title=\"Saint Theodore of Vrsac - Martyred and Skinned alive by the Ottoman Turks\" src=\"http:\/\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Saint-Theodore-of-Vrsac-Martyred-Skinned-alive-by-the-Ottoman-Turks.jpg\" alt=\"Saint Theodore of Vrsac - Martyred and Skinned alive by the Ottoman Turks\" width=\"228\" height=\"280\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2109\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Saint Theodore of Vrsac &#8211; Martyred and Skinned alive by the Ottoman Turks<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Under the Holy Flag of Saint Sava<br \/>\nSix hundred villages united, strong<br \/>\nRose under Theodor, for freedom to strike<br \/>\nLiving under the Ottoman yoke too long.<br \/>\nFrom Srem, to Backa, to Banat<br \/>\nSerbs valiant each one pointed his gun<br \/>\nAt the Ottomans, pledging freedom to have<br \/>\nOr death if such were not to be won.<\/p>\n<p>The Ottoman, seeing, knowing feared<br \/>\nFor their green flag, to Damascus he sent<br \/>\nTo meet the challenges the Paschas forces came<br \/>\nAnd fought until the Serbs were spent.<br \/>\nFor safety they to Transyvania fled<br \/>\nSoon the Ottoman Emperor knew<br \/>\nWit out the Serbs to till it, his lands were little<br \/>\nAs to make use of the land, folk were now few.<\/p>\n<p>An amnesty, it was decided, must be made<br \/>\nAnd to the Serbs the Emperor sent the call<br \/>\nReturn to your homes and forgiven you will be<br \/>\nA Turkish pardon, it is promised will be for all.<br \/>\nAnd they returned, to the barren fields, man to man<br \/>\nAs each family, to their homes destroyed, they went<br \/>\nAs Saint Teodore was captured by the Ottoman troops<br \/>\nAll soon learned what a Turkish pardon meant.<\/p>\n<p>Praying to is Father, Holy God, accepting his fate<br \/>\nAs with Our Lord Jesus Christ before him on the Cross<br \/>\nHe met his tragic death, flayed alive by cruel hands<br \/>\nGreat was Serbia&#8217;s woe, great it was\u00a0 her loss.<br \/>\nWithin Belgrades walls, Saint Sava&#8217;s relics holy too<br \/>\nIncinerated in revenge they were as well<br \/>\nBut that burned his memory to Serbian minds<br \/>\nSwearing living Turks would know a future hell.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Under the Holy Flag of Saint Sava Six hundred villages united, strong Rose under Theodor, for freedom to strike Living under the Ottoman yoke too long. From Srem, to Backa, to Banat Serbs valiant each one pointed his gun At the Ottomans, pledging freedom to have Or death if such &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[102,205],"tags":[1584,1586,1588,1589,1560,1585,2355,1587,1423,741],"class_list":["post-1400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-islam","category-serbia","tag-belgrade","tag-danube","tag-martyr","tag-ottoman","tag-saint","tag-sava","tag-serbia","tag-theodore","tag-turkey","tag-vrsac","column","twocol"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7EI4f-mA","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1438,"url":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/visiting-a-church-at-vrsac\/","url_meta":{"origin":1400,"position":0},"title":"Visiting a Church at Vr\u0161ac","author":"Tom\u00e1s \u00d3 C\u00e1rthaigh","date":"7th February 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"This poem was written visiting Serbia for the first time nearly ten years ago now, if not more... 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