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Famous for his courageous defence of Orthodoxy at the Council of Florence in the face of the Emperor and the Pope, he entered peace-fully into rest in the year 1445. On his deathbed, he begged his disci-ple George, later the famous Patriarch Gennadius, to keep himself from the snare of the West and to defend Orthodoxy.
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SerbianOrthodoxChurch.net * From "The Prologue from Ochrid", by Bishop Nikolai Velimirovic - Lazarica Press - Birmingham 1985 Four Book Edition - Translated by Mother Maria - Dates based on old church calendar. Please see our calendar for conversion between old and new calendar dates. |