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Venerable Paisius the Great

Also known as Paisios the Great of Egypt

A great ascetic of the desert of Egypt, given from childhood to the Church, who attained to such heights of prayer and love that Christ Himself appeared to him; a father whose intercession is sought for the departed.

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Notes

Not Paisius of Hilandar (same day).

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