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Priest-martyr Demetrius Klepinin

Also known as Dimitri Klepinin

An Orthodox priest in Paris who, working beside Mother Maria, gave baptismal certificates to Jews to save them, and was arrested and died in the camp of Buchenwald.

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