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Hierarch · 18th century

Saint John of Galesh

Also known as John of Gales

A Romanian Orthodox bishop who resisted Habsburg pressure against Orthodoxy and was imprisoned for refusing to abandon his flock.

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Notes

Among the Confessors of Transylvania.

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