Saint Martyr Boyan, Bulgarian prince, suffered for his faith in Christ around the year 830. Having approached his pagan brother Malomir with a request to free the Christian Kinnamon from captivity, he witnessed his sufferings and heard an explanation of the delusions of paganism. After accepting Holy Baptism, Prince Boyan was filled with sincere love for prayer and God-thought. When Malomir demanded that he renounce Christ, the holy prince resolutely replied that he would not abandon his love for Christ. For this, he was sentenced to death.
Before his martyr's end, the holy prince uttered a prophecy about the spread of faith throughout the Bulgarian land and that his death would not stop the service to the True God. He predicted that his brother Malomir would soon die, and this prophecy was fulfilled. The throne was inherited by the elder brother Presiyan, and his son, the holy equal-to-the-apostles prince Boris, later baptized the Bulgarian people, thus fulfilling the prophecy of the holy martyr Prince Boyan.
