New Martyrs of Novo Selo

The New Martyrs of Novo Selo are a group of Orthodox Christians of Novo Selo, in north-central Bulgaria (the town is now called Apriltsi), who were killed in Ottoman reprisals during the April Uprising of 1876. They are commemorated together on May 9, the day of their slaughter. The Bulgarian Orthodox Church formally glorified them as saints on April 3, 2011.

The April Uprising was a Bulgarian revolt against Ottoman rule that broke out in April 1876. According to local tradition, a rising signal was given near Novo Selo on May 1, 1876, and a short-lived autonomous entity sometimes called the 'Novosel Republic' was declared. The uprising was crushed with great violence by Ottoman forces, and the reprisals against the civilian population around Novo Selo culminated on May 9, when most of the victims were killed at the town's Holy Trinity convent.

Sources record that approximately 700 people were killed in and around Novo Selo, the majority within the Holy Trinity convent. As with the contemporary massacre at Batak, very few of the dead are known by name; the commemoration is therefore that of a collective body of new martyrs rather than of individually venerated saints. Relics of the martyrs are preserved in an ossuary at the monastery.