Theodore the Varangian and his son John

Murder of Martyrs Theodor the Varangian and his son John. Radziwiłł Chronicle

Theodore the Varangian and his son John (Russian: Феодор Варяг и сын его Иоанн, romanizedFeodor Varyag i syn yego Ioann; 10th century) are the names traditionally attributed to a Varangian Christian man from Greece and his young son living in Kiev, who were killed in a story recorded in the Primary Chronicle under the year 6491 (983).[1] The chronicle glorifies their deaths as examples of Christian martyrs who suffered persecution by the pagan establishment of Kievan Rus' during the reign of prince Vladimir the Great (before his own conversion to Byzantine Christianity around 988).

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