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Venerable Peter of Mount Athos

Also known as Peter the Athonite

A soldier taken captive and delivered through the prayers of St Nicholas, who in thanksgiving became a monk and dwelt as a hermit on the Holy Mountain of Athos for fifty-three years, the first of its hermits.

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