The Publishing House of the Bible and Orthodox Mission Institute of the Romanian Patriarchate has published with the blessing of His Beatitude Daniel, Patriarch of the Romanian Orthodox Church, the book entitled “Life and Akathist of Saint Pious Antonie the Great”, in the new collection of “Akathists and Lives of the Saints”.
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