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Venerable Abramius the Recluse and his niece Mary 11/11/2013
His parents married him against his will, but at the day of his wedding he left his bride and his parents’ house and withdrew to solitude and ascetic struggle. He led an ascetic struggle for fifty years. During all this time he came out of his cell only twice. The first time he came out when the local Bishop asked him to convert the inhabitants of a pagan village to the faith. The second time he left his cell to save his niece Mary who had gone astray. He fell asleep in peace in the year 360, when he was seventy years of age.
