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“Suffer martyrdom in your conscience…”

Abba [St] Athanasios, bishop of Alexandria, said: “One of you often says: ‘Where is the persecution so I can be martyred?’ Suffer martyrdom in your conscience; die to sin; ‘Mortify your members which are upon the earth’ [cf. Col 3:5] and you will have become a martyr by intention. Those [former martyrs] fought with emperors and rulers; you have the devil, the emperor of sin, for adversary and…