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The name VISSARION derives from BESSARION, and may have Russian, Greek, or Late Greek origins and have its roots in The Mysticism Tradition.
Possibly from Greek βῆσσα (bessa) meaning "wooded valley". This was the name of a 5th-century Egyptian hermit who was a disciple of Saint Anthony the Great. It was later adopted by the scholar Basilios Bessarion (1403-1472), a Greek born in Byzantine Anatolia who became a Roman Catholic bishop.
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