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Venerable (Monastic) · 16th century
Saint Dionysios the Rhetorician and his Disciple Metrophanes
Also known as Dionysios the Rhetorician · Metrophanes
A learned monk and his disciple who struggled together in the Little Skete of St Anne on Mount Athos.
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Notes
Named teacher-and-disciple pair commemorated as one.
Sources: OCA Synaxarion (oca.org), Lives of the Saints