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St. Athanasius

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Feastday: February 22
Death: 818

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Abbot who suffered in the reign of the Byzantine Emperor Leo V the Armenian. Athanasius was abbot of Paulopetian Monastery near Nicomedia. The iconoclast controversy put him at odds with the Byzantine Emperor, who apparently persecuted him.

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