SAINT EPHRAIM THE SYRIAN

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SAINT EPHRAIM THE SYRIAN  – ( 373-9). St. Ephraim, commemorated January 28, was a major spiritual writer and hymnographer of the 4th Century, and is especially noted in Orthodox liturgical life for, among other things, his inspiring work, The Lenten Prayer of St. Ephraim the Syrian, which is said at all of the weekday services of Great Lent.