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  Saint Petronius

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  Philip the Apostle

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  Peter of Atroa (773-837) was an abbot who was later canonized as a saint. He was born the eldest of three children. His given name was Theophylact. At eighteen, he determined to become a monk and joined Paul the Hesychast at his hermitage in Phrygia, where he took the religious name "Peter". The...

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