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New Martyr Aquilina of Thessalonica

Also known as Akylina

A young Christian girl near Thessalonica pressured to accept Islam after her father's conflict with a neighbor, who confessed Christ and died from torture in 1764.

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Sources: OCA Synaxarion (oca.org), Lives of the Saints