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Monastics

They dedicated their lives to Christ and tried to live a much like Jesus as they could.
Examples are :
   St. Euphrosynos, the cook of Alexandria,
   Venerable and God-bearing Father Anthony the Great,
   St. Paraskevi of Rome

Others
   Saint Efthymius the Great
   Saint Savvas the Sanctified
   Saint Theodosios the Great the Cenobite
   Saint Onouphrios the Great
   Saint Athanasius the Founder of the Great Lavra and Coenobitic Monasticism on Mt. Athos
   Saint Peter the Athonite
   

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