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We don't know for sure when he lived and died, but he became one the three most important soldier-saints of the East along with St. George and St. Demetrius. We know that he was born at Amasea in Pontus ( modern Amasya ), and martyred there because he set fire to a pagan temple. After he suffered tortures in the prison, he was thrown into a furnace and martyred. His burial place at Euchaita became an important pilgrimage place. He was venerated in Anatolia as early as 4 th C. Also, in the Christian art, the paintings on the church walls that show the slaying of a dragon by a knight is attributed to this St. Theodore as well as to the St. George.
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