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The Venerable '''George the Righteous of Maleon''', also '''George of Mount Maleon''', was an ascetic [[monk]] of the ninth century. He is commemorated on [[April 4]].

George chose to live a [[monasticism|monastic]] life as an [[asceticism|ascetic]] after he refused to marry the woman his parents had chosen for him. He entered the [[monastery]] on Mount Maleon in the Peloponnese where a community of [[monk]]s gathered about him, and he came to be called an earthly [[angel]] and a [[wonderworker]]. [[Saint]] George was able to see the future, and predicted his own death three years before it occurred. 

== Apolytikion ==
''in the Plagal of the Fourth Tone''

With the streams of thy tears, thou didst cultivate the barrenness of the desert; 
and by thy sighings from the depths, thou didst bear fruit a hundredfold in labours; 
and thou becamest a luminary, shining with miracles upon the world, 
O George our righteous Father. 
Intercede with Christ God that our souls be saved.

==Sources==
*[https://oca.org/saints/lives/2017/04/04/100985-venerable-george-of-mt-maleon-in-the-peloponnesus OCA:  Venerable George of Mt. Maleon in the Peloponnesus]

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