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Venerable Stephen of Saint Savva Monastery

Also known as Stephen the Sabaite

A nephew of St John of Damascus who entered the Lavra of St Sabbas as a child of ten and lived out his life there in asceticism and the writing of sacred hymns.

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