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Memory of Venerable Nikiforos the Leper
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Memory of Venerable Nikiforos the Leper
A new saint is commemorated by the Church, Saint Nikiforos the leper, whose canonization took place in December 2012. Venerable Nikiforos (born as Nikolaos Tzanakakis) was born in Chania in 1890. His parents, simple and pious villagers, died early. When he started working in a barbershop at the age of 13, he had the first symptoms of Hansen’s disease (also known as leprosy). Nikolaos left for Egypt at the age of 16 because the symptoms of his il…
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