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Venerable Gregory the Decapolite

Also known as Gregory of Decapolis

A monk who fled an unwanted marriage and lived in asceticism across the Byzantine world, enduring hardship and defending Orthodoxy during the iconoclast period.

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