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		<title>Holy and Right-Believing Queen Tamara of Georgia (May 1)</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Mar 2026 09:46:23 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Holy and Right-believing Queen of Queens, Tamara, reigned over Georgia during its Golden Age and shone forth in the firmament of the Church as a model of piety, justice, and apostolic zeal. Born around the year 1160 to King George III and his pious consort Burdukhan, Tamara was a descendant of the royal Bagrationi [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>St. Panaretos of Paphos (May 1)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Mar 2026 21:13:11 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Having drawn all virtue to himself, Panaretos confirms his name by his deeds. Saint Panaretos was born at the beginning of the eighteenth century, most probably in Peristeronopigi of Famagusta, where he also became a monk in the local Monastery of Saint Anastasius. We know that in the year 1764 he was the abbot of [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Venerable Paphnutius of Borovsk (May 1)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Mar 2026 14:20:58 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Venerable Paphnutius of Borovsk, known in the world as Parthenius, lived during the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. His father was named John. At the age of twenty, Parthenius fled his father’s house in secret and took refuge in a monastery. In the year 1414, he was tonsured a monk in the Monastery of the [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Holy Prophet Jeremiah (May 1)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Mar 2026 11:11:58 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The glorious and great Prophet Jeremiah, who prophesied to the people of Israel for forty and one years, was born in Anathoth, where his father Hilkiah was a priest. He distinguished himself as a teacher of love, instructing his fellow countrymen to extinguish the hatred nesting within their hearts and to extend their love even [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Holy New Martyr Mary (Maria) of Crete (May 1)</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Hieromonk Tikhon]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jan 2026 14:48:53 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[CELEBRATED MAY 1st The fair-virgin New Martyr of the Faith, Maria, surnamed Methymopoula,1 was born in Kato Fourni2 of Meramvellou, Crete, of pious and honourable parents. A certain Turko-Albanian gendarme3 became enamoured of this most chaste maiden, and he exerted every effort to entice her into his abominable lust. Yet, the more he strove, the [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Saint Batas of Persia (May 1)</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Hieromonk Tikhon]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jul 2025 20:46:50 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Passion of the Holy Hieromartyr Batas (+ 4th c.)1 Commemorated on the First of May The Holy Hieromartyr Batas was from Persia. His ancestors were Christians, and he himself was raised in the Christian faith. Having reached the age of thirty, he left his father, mother, wife, and children, distributed his possessions to the [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>St. Isidora the Fool for Christ of Egypt (May 1)</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Hieromonk Tikhon]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jul 2025 16:21:08 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Our Venerable Mother Isidora, Fool for Christ of Egypt (+ c. 365) Commemorated May 1st [In one of the women’s monasteries of Tabenna1 in Egypt], there was a certain virgin named Isidora. For Christ’s sake, she presented herself as a fool and one who was mad, having chosen this path of ascetic struggle out of [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Saint Philosophos of Alexandria (May 1)</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Hieromonk Tikhon]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jul 2025 18:00:23 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Holy Martyr Philosophos, Perfected by the Sword (+ 252)1 Commemorated on the First of May O Philosophos, blessed in name and in deed, Thou hast truly proven thyself a friend of wisdom. This great martyr of Christ, Philosophos, was from the region of Alexandria, as was related concerning him by Anthony the Great among [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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