St. Ephraim the New of Nea Makri

A newly revealed saint to the Orthodox Church, St. Ephraim the New is considered a patron for drug addicts, suicides and youth in despair. St. Ephraim was tortured to death slowly over a period of a year in 1425 in Greece for being a Christian.    After each event of his torture, his wounds were allowed to heal - only then, he would be exposed to new and harsher punishments. He was finally executed by hanging upside down from a tree in his monastery grounds, run through with a pole, and then set on fire.

He was forgotten until he appeared to an abbess of a convent. He revealed to her his life story and his holy sufferings. He revealed the spot where his bones were buried. When the faithful exhumed them, they found his bones had never decomposed.