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SAINT IPHIGENIA - 21st SEPTEMBER
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1. [St Iphigenia was a first century Virgin converted to Christianity and afterwards consecrated to God by St Matthew the Evangelist, Apostle of Ethiopia.]
"The Ethiopian king [at the time of St Matthew's arrival]
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1. [St Iphigenia was a first century Virgin converted to Christianity and afterwards consecrated to God by St Matthew the Evangelist, Apostle of Ethiopia.]
"The Ethiopian king [at the time of St Matthew's arrival]
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2. was named Egippus. He sent for all the men in his provinces saying to them: Come and see ye God in the likeness of a man.
Upon this, the people came with crowns of gold and divers manner of sacrifices, and would have sacrificed to him.
Upon this, the people came with crowns of gold and divers manner of sacrifices, and would have sacrificed to him.
3. St Matthew beheld them and said: What do ye men? I am not God, but I am servant of our Lord.
[Therefore, from the resources brought they instead built a church for the glory and honour of the Lord.] In which church the apostle sat three and thirty years,
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[Therefore, from the resources brought they instead built a church for the glory and honour of the Lord.] In which church the apostle sat three and thirty years,
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