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Saint Athanasia of Aegina (c.790 in Aegina – 14 August 860 in Timia, Greece) was a saint who worked in the Byzantine Empire and was for a while adviser to the Empress Theodora II.

She served as an abbess and was known for her miraculous healing of the sick and those seen as possessed. (Full article...)
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