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Venerable (Monastic) · 9th century

Venerable Macarius of Pelekete

Also known as Macarius the Monk of Pelekete

An abbot of the Pelekete monastery who confessed the veneration of icons and suffered exile during the iconoclast persecution.

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