فيما كانوا يجلدونه تهلل قائلا: “افرح يا شالفا لأنك خلعت الانسان العتيق وحرّرت نفسك من الهلاك الابدي”. ألقوه في السجن محطّم العظام. رقد في حزيران سنة 1227م.
As for his companions, whom Shah Jalal al-Din wanted, after the fall of Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia, to spit on the icon of Christ in order for him to give them their lives, they refused and were killed. It is said that their number was ten thousand.
The church commemorates him on June 17.