May 2: Saint Athanasius was banished five times for defending Our Lord's Divinity against heresy, he persevered and truth triumphed in the end.

Saint Athanasius the Great, Archbishop of Alexandria, was a great Father of the Church and a pillar of Orthodoxy. He was born around the year 297 in the city of Alexandria into a family of pious Christians. He received a fine secular education, but he acquired more knowledge by diligent study of…

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