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		<title>Synaxis of the Three Holy New Martyrs Euthymios, Ignatios, &#038; Akakios (May 1)</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[Rejoice, my Euthymios, rejoice many times over; For, having been slain, thou hast found the joy on high with a willing heart. I behold Ignatios as another star, Shining from the earth unto the heavens by the way of the noose. Alas! by the sword, men of blood slaughter The illustrious Akakios, like unto a [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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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>St. Isidora the Fool for Christ of Egypt (May 1)</title>
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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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