[Agrarian]

This is such a powerful story that it is one of the few stories of saints' lives that have penetrated into the Protestant world. Even I, as a child growing up as a strict Calvinist, read this story (in an abbreviated, Protestant form) and was incredibly moved by it.

Its important to the Church is indicated by the fact that there are only four high ranking feasts that can fall during Great Lent according to the traditional Menaia, and the feast of the 40 Martys is one of them. There are commemorations of martyrs almost every day during Great Lent, but this is the one that the Church has chosen to highlight.

Kolokotronis -- does your family do skylarks on the feast?

[Kolokotronis]

"Kolokotronis -- does your family do skylarks on the feast?"

I know the family in Greece does, but I haven't seen them (except in Greece) since I was quite little.

I'm astonished that Protestants tell this story of the 40 Martyrs.