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Venerable (Monastic) · 10th century

Venerable Athanasius of Athos and his Six Disciples

Also known as Athanasius the Athonite · founder of the Great Lavra

The founder of the Great Lavra on Mount Athos and father of its cenobitic life, who against his own love of stillness gathered and ordered the monastic brotherhood of the Holy Mountain; he reposed when the dome of his church fell, with six disciples beside him.

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Notes

Named with his six disciples.

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