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St. Antim the Iberian
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St. Antim the Iberian

c. 1650–1716 · Bucharest · Feast September 27

Antim was born in Georgia, taken captive as a boy and sold as a slave in Constantinople, where he was freed and learned woodcarving, painting and printing. In Wallachia he set up presses that printed books in Romanian, Greek, Arabic, Georgian and Slavonic. As Metropolitan he defended the people’s rights, and he was murdered on the way to exile in 1716.

  • Feast: September 27 (New Calendar)
  • Lived: c. 1650–1716
  • Place: Bucharest
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