Our Holy Father, St. Gregory
Palamas
Commemorated November 14/27, and on the Second
Sunday of Great Lent
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St.
Gregory Palamas, one of the pillars of Orthodoxy, was
born in 1296, probably to a noble Anatolian family in
Constantinople. He and his brother went to Mount Athos
in around 1318, and lived in Vatopedi and Esphigmenou
Monasteries. Gregory also successfully persuaded his
widowed mother, brothers and sisters to become take up
the monastic life. With the encroachment of the Turks,
he was forced to flee to Thessalonica, being ordained a
pr
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