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Venerable Paul Founder of Xeropotamou Monastery

Also known as Paul of Xeropotamou · Procopius

A son of the emperor Michael who forsook the purple for the monastic habit and founded the monasteries of Xeropotamou and of St Paul on Mount Athos.

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