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- Our Righteous Mother Euphrosyne (~445)
- She was the daughter of a wealthy Christian, Paphnutius, who with
his wife brought up Euphrosyne in piety. Not wishing to marry, she
secretly fled her home and its wealth, dressed herself in men's clothing
and entered a monastery using the name of Smaragdus. There she lived in
asceticism for thirty-eight years. She only revealed her identity on
her death bed. Her father Paphnutius became a monk in the same
monastery, and entered into repose ten years after his daughter.
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