Saint Porphyrius
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Porphyrius was bishop of Gaza from 395 to 420, known, from the account in his Life, for Christianizing the recalcitrant pagan city of Gaza, and demolishing its temples.
16th century fresco in a monastery of Mount Athos, Greece
Icon of St. Porphyrius
On 19 October 2023, during the Gaza war, a building in the compound of the Church of Saint Porphyrius, a Greek Orthodox church in Gaza City, was destroyed during an Israeli airstrike, killing 18 Pales
Saint Porphyrius Church in 2022, before the Israeli airstrike