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Venerable (Monastic) · 11th century

Venerable George of Mount Athos

Also known as George the Athonite · George the Hagiorite

A Georgian raised in the monastic life from childhood who became a great light of the Iveron monastery on Athos, completing the translation of the Scriptures and the service-books into the Georgian tongue.

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Notes

George the Hagiorite of Iveron; not the Great Martyr George.

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