Blessed are you, our Father Athanasius, / for you lived faithfully, standing vigorously for the Holy Orthodox Faith, / with tenderness, always the unseated belt of the Most Pure One, / commanding to no one violate the holy Orthodox faith,/ having suffered for witnessing the truth even to the point of death./ We, honoring your shrine,/ boldly cry out to you:/ Our Father, Reverend Martyr Athanasius,// praise and our decoration.
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