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Pictured with her husband, Saint Gregory of Nyssa
Image 1: from a set of Russian Menaion Icons
from "An Iconographer's Pattern Book: The Stroganov Tradition",
Image 1 - by Francisco de Zurbarán - Musee de Louvre, Paris
Image 2: Epitrachelion with SS. Nicetas and Xenia. From the Pavlo-Obnorsky Monastery
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