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Confessor · 9th century

Saint Athanasius the Confessor

A confessor who suffered for the veneration of the holy icons under the iconoclast emperor Leo the Armenian, enduring imprisonment and hardship for the Orthodox faith. He reposed about the year 821.

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Sources: OCA Synaxarion (oca.org), Lives of the Saints