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Venerable Marcellus of the Unsleeping Ones

Also known as Marcellus, Abbot of the Akoimetoi

A wealthy orphan who became a monk and later abbot of the Monastery of the Unsleeping Ones, known for continual prayer.

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