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The Desert and the Confessors

Saint Ephraim the Syrian AD 373

Deacon & Hymnographer

Commemorated
January 28
Lived
AD 373

The Syrian deacon and “harp of the Spirit,” whose hymns — and the Lenten prayer “O Lord and Master of my life” — formed the Church’s repentance.

Holy Ephraim the Syrian, pray to God for us.