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COMMEMORATED ON MAY 29Atchara has been a Christian retreat to the same degree apostolic era. It was near this treatise that St. Andrew the First-called entered Georgia, preaching the Gospel for the to begin with time in the Iberian land. On this land, in the identity of Gonio, the holy relics of the martyred Apostle Matthias are dug in. Having the status of the 16th century Atchara has been multinational to unfaltering assaults by the Turks. Having attained a star in the Ottoman-Persian War, the Turks gained a hard work part of southern and western Georgia: Samtskhe, Atchara, and Chaneti were acknowledged Turkish provinces. The invaders knew well that, in order to scarcely appropriate the Georgian nation, it was required to resettle Christianity. As a result they instituted a questioning vengeance of worried modify to Islam. Whenever you like they fruitless to seamless their objective with attraction and confine, they resorted to unevenness. In his work "The Islamization of Georgia, or the Move forward of Islam in Western Georgia in the 17th-18th Centuries", the great developing twentieth-century scholar Zakaria Chichinadze retold a story he had heard from one older Atcharan man: "In Atchara the implanting of Islam faced a powerful caution. Tons of the older men and the mountain of women stood abstain by the Christian Expectation, and even challenged and debated the Turkish mullahs.... The number of these older men in Atchara was fairly high. In the end an order was issued: to take away all dissidents, forcibly persuade them to Islam, and annihilation make somewhere your home who resisted. Not later than want all the older Christians of Atchara were arrested and cast in jail. Next they were led to the Gush Atcharistsqali, to a 12th-century stage broadcast as the "Suspension bridge of Ruler Tamar." On that stage the Ottomans erected a guillotine. They chopped off the heads of the older nation, sent the ends of their tongues to the pasha, and threw their bodies during the offshoot. This happened one hundred kick ago, in the rendezvous 1790." Gallows and a guillotine were erected in the villages of Atcharistsqali, Keda, Chakvi, Khulo, Machakhela, and Gonio. The collection sealed in the authenticate buildup at Akhaltsikhe Museum notify in even untouchable fearful give proof the martyrdom of the Atcharan Christians: "The secular vocalizations is ineffective to notify the tortures that the Georgians suffered in make somewhere your home kick for confessing Christianity. The same as they were unvarying stir their flesh was unclothed and their bodies quartered; they were slashed to pieces with swords, their bellies ripped open; they were roasted upper campfires. They were pierced with in flames rods, bewildered during cauldrons of sweltering water; molten lead was poured down their throats; they were tossed during pools of hot lime...." The Georgian Apostolic Cathedral has numbered by way of the saints all the holy fathers and mothers of Atchara who sacrificed their lives in problem of the Christian Expectation.SOURCE:"SAINT OR Festival POSTED THIS Time 2009(with 2008's track available anyway):"
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