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Venerable (Monastic) · 17th century

Venerables Raphael and Partenius of Agapia

Also known as Rafael de la Agapia · Partenie de la Agapia

Two ascetic monks of Agapia Monastery in Moldavia, remembered for their hesychast life. They lived in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

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Monks of Agapia, Moldavia (16th–17th c.). One commemoration of two named monks kept as a single row. Glorified by the Romanian Orthodox Church in 2008.

Sources: Synaxar of the Romanian Saints (sfintiromani.ro); Doxologia (doxologia.ro); Romanian Orthodox Church canonization (2008)