The Holy New Martyr Peter the Aleut.
The holy New Martyr Peter suffered martyrdom in San Francisco, at the time that California belonged to Spain. An Aleut from Alaska, he and his companions were captured in California by the Spaniards. When he refused to abandon Orthodoxy to accept Latinism, which they wished to force upon him, the Spaniards submitted him to a martyrdom like that suffered by Saint James the Persian, cutting him apart joint by joint. He died from loss of blood in steadfast confession of the Faith in 1815.
The above account is taken from the Great Horologion,
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