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The Monk George Limniotes Commemorated on August 24 The Monk George Limniotes lived during the VIII Century and was a monk of the Olympia monastery near Constantinople. He suffered for venerating icons under the Iconoclast emperor Leo the Isaurian (716-741). They burned his head and cut off his nose. The Monk George died in about the year 716. © 1996-2001 by translator Fr. S. Janos. |
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