1246: Mikhail of Chernigov, Miracle-Worker

ExecutedToday.com ^ | September 20, 2014 | Headsman

[CheshireTheCat]

On this date in 1246, the Russian prince Mikhail of Chernigov was put to death by the Mongol commander Batu Khan for refusing to make an idolatrous gesture of submission. In its time, prosperous Chernigov (or “Chernihiv” in a more Ukrainian transliteration) vied with neighboring Kiev for the the pride of place in Rus’. But Chernigov’s time ended with Mikhail’s time, because the Mongols came crashing through the gates. The “Tatar Yoke” descended on Chernigov, and on Rus’, in the 1230s, and would not be lifted for a quarter of a millennium...

[CincyRichieRich]

So random...but I love history.

[texas booster]

Although Mikhail consented to kowtow to the Mongol prince, he incensed his host by refusing to prostrate himself before heathen idols. For this he was slaughtered along with an equally faithful boyar named Fedor, their bodies cast into the wilds for animals and elements to devour.

I didn't think that the Mongols had many heathen idols, but they probably picked them up as they conquered various peoples.

I guess I need to rehear the Dan Carlin podcast series on the Mongols.

[Big Red Badger]

Interesting site but
I tried “Hannie Shaft”
A Dutch Resistance fighter
Executed by Nazi’s an Zero!

[Big Red Badger]

Even spelled it
Correctly SCHAFT.
AKA
The girl with Red Hair.

[JoanSmith]

Forgive me... On the old calendar we are celebrating the Forefeast of the Nativity of the Theotokos. The feast of St. Michael isn’t for another 13 days, and then it truly will be ‘this day in history.’ The new calendar wasn’t accepted by the Orthodox world until 1923, and even then it was met with resistant by the Slavic nations. As well as Greek martyrs that rejected the papist invention. One of the reasons half the Church rejected the new calendar was so that when we celebrate the feasts they are actually on that day in history. I’m grateful you’re spreading True Christian history, but just wanted to clarify that the new calendar does not represent the actual day in history.