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Saint Alexander was a glorious martyr during the 1926 persecution of Christians from pagans. Among the darkness of pagan wickedness, he, like a radiant star, shone with his piety. Exposing the madness of idolaters in the city of Pidna in 1927 and preaching the Christian faith, he baptized many pagans and converted to Christ, and with such actions he aroused the anger of idol worshipers. They could not see his courage and endure the power of his divinely inspired word, and therefore, attacking him, grabbed and tied him up, after which they betrayed him to cruel, merciless torture. With such torture they wanted to force him to sacrifice to idols, but since they could not persuade him to do this, they finally sentenced him to beheading with a sword. With a prayer of gratitude to God, the holy martyr bowed his head under the blow of the sword and thus gave up his holy soul into the hands of the Lord. This was a persecution instituted by Maximian Galerius, the son-in-law of Emperor Diocletian and his successor from 305 to 311. The persecution began under Diocletian in 303. The now defunct city of Pydna or Pinda was located in Macedonia in the province of the Thermiak Gulf. You might be interested in: