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    Icon of Christ and Abbot Mena (French: L'Icône du Christ et de l'Abbé Ménas) a Coptic painting which is now in the Louvre museum, in Paris. The icon is...
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    as Jesus Christ. The apostles worship him and pledge to do as he wishes. Jesus commands them to go back to the city of Habitation to teach and heal all...
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    Bogoslovsky and Nicholas Ushakov, Priests (1937) New Hieromartyr Gregory (Vorobiev), Abbot, of Koprino, Yaroslavl (1937) The Kazan Icon of the Most Holy...
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    Bawit (category 4th-century religious buildings and structures)
    (50 mi) north of Asyut, near the village of Dashlout, in Egypt. It covers an area of 40 hectares (99 acres), and houses a cemetery and the ruins of the Hermopolite...
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    Syrian (Isaac of Monteluco), Abbot of Spoleto, Italy (c. 550) (see also: April 11 - West) Venerable monk-martyrs David, John and Menas, of Palestine, shot...
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  • Monastery of Saint Dionysios the Areopagite, St. James, New York. Abbot: Hieromonk Vasileios (Willard). [34] New Kursk-Root Icon Hermitage (Residence of Bishop...
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    Menas, Ioasaph, Ioannicius, Anthony, Euthymius, Dometian, and Parthenius, and four laymen. Saint Dionysios the Philosopher (1611) Blessed Andrew of Totma...
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    of Damascus. Christ and Saint Menas, 6th-century Coptic icon, Louvre Martyr Vincent of Spain (Vincent of Saragossa). St. Theodore of Studion. St. Martin...
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    of Padua, by various epithets: Anthony of Egypt, Anthony the Abbot, Anthony of the Desert, Anthony the Anchorite, Anthony the Hermit, and Anthony of Thebes...
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    Basil the Hesychast, Abbot of Poiana Marului Skete (+ 1767)". Retrieved 2024-08-16. "Blessed Basil of Moscow the Fool-For-Christ". www.oca.org. Retrieved...
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    Menas the Most Eloquent, Hermogenes, and Eugraphus, of Alexandria (c. 313) Martyr Gemellus of Paphlagonia (Gemellus of Ancyra), cruelly tortured and crucified...
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    and demons attempting to drag down the climbers or shoot them with arrows, no matter how high up the ladder they may be. Most versions of the icon show...
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    13) Martyrs Proclus and Hilary, of Ancyra (2nd century) Martyrs Andrew the Commander, Heraclius, Faustus, Menas, and those with them. (see also: August...
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    Patrician and Igumenia of a female monastery in Jerusalem, where she also founded the Monastery of St Menas, whose Abbot was the Bishop of Jamnia, Stephanos...
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    Virgin, of Egypt (c. 470) (see also: January 4) Venerable Phosterius the Hermit (6th century) Saint Menas of Sinai (6th century) Venerable Gregory of Crete...
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    Bishop of Carrhae (c. 387), Confessors. Saints John the Cappadocian (520) and Epiphanius (535), Patriarchs of Constantinople. Saint Menas, Patriarch of Constantinople...
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    Elessa of Kythira (375) Saint Timothy of Proconnesus, Wonderworker, Archbishop of Proconnesus (6th century) Martyrs Menas, Menais, and others of England...
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    (867-869) of Martyr Menas the Most Eloquent, of Alexandria (ca. 313) Weeping "Tikhvin" Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos, at the Kozak Skete of St. Elias...
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    were killed by them and he only escaped with difficulty. He then became Abbot of Weissenburg and in 968 the first Archbishop of Magdeburg with jurisdiction...
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    the resurrection of Jesus Christ when he was told of it (as is related in the Gospel of John); he later confessed his faith ("My lord and my God") on seeing...
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    Hermogenes and Menas (Mamas, Mamatos). (see also: December 10) Saints Hermogenes and Philemon, Bishop of Karpathos. Venerable Macedonius of Syria, hermit of Mt...
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  • Apostles and SanDokht (the daughter of the King or daughter of Abbot Simeon) and other Thaddeus' devotees were tortured and executed by Armenia's King Sanatrouk...
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    enough. Feeling overcome by despair and once again tempted by his former passions, early one morning, Isidore, abbot of the monastery, took Moses to the...
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  • Saint symbolism: Saints (A–H) (category Lists of saints)
    throughout the history of the Church. A number of Christian saints are traditionally represented by a symbol or iconic motif associated with their life, termed...
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    Constance and the abbot of the monastery of Sahagún, Bernard of Sedirac (or Bernard of Cluny), who had been elevated to the rank of archbishop of Toledo...
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  • the prayers of Theodosios, their abbot A well that filled with water when an icon of the same Abba Theodosios was let down into it The life of John, an elder...
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    of the 1556 ecclesiastical inquiry omitted him, and he was not mentioned in documentation before the mid-17th century. In 1996 the 83-year-old abbot of...
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  • Saint symbolism: Saints (I–P) (category Lists of saints)
    throughout the history of the Church. A number of Christian saints are traditionally represented by a symbol or iconic motif associated with their life, termed...
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    shepherds, Successor of Saint Mark, thirteenth among the Apostles, Ecumenical Judge, Beloved of Christ. He was also the head of the Holy Synod of the Coptic Orthodox...
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  • and necromancer. Upon his death in prison, John II of Castile ordered his confessor Bishop Barrientos to burn Villena's library The poet Juan de Mena...
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