Memory of Venerable Athanasius the Confessor

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Memory of Venerable Athanasius the Confessor

The Church commemorates Saint Ariston, Bishop of Arsinoe in Paphos, whose Diocese was re-established in 1996 under the ministry of Metropolitan Chrysostomos of Paphos, now Archbishop of Cyprus. The Church also commemorates Saint Athanasius the Confessor, who was born in Constantinople and from a young age had the desire to follow the path of monasticism. From a young age, he was tonsured a monk in Pavlopetriou Monastery, which is near Nicomedia.…