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Saint Porphyry of Gaza
Porphyry of Gaza Icon by Osip
Chirikov
The 26th of February is the feast day of Saint Porphyry
(c. 347–420).
The following is from Butler’s Lives of the Saints:
AT the age of twenty-five, Porphyry, a rich
citizen of Thessalonica, left the world for
one of the great religious houses in the
desert of Sceté. Here he remained five
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