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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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					<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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					<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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