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Righteous Simeon the God-Receiver

Also known as Simeon the God-bearer · Simeon who received the Lord

The God-Receiver who, as the Holy Spirit had promised, lived to take the infant Christ into his arms in the Temple, proclaiming "Now lettest Thou Thy servant depart in peace"; tradition counts him among the seventy translators of the Septuagint.

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Sources: OCA Synaxarion (oca.org), Feb 3