Elias the Hermit

Elias the Hermit

Venerable Elias the Hermit was a desert dwelling monk of the fourth century AD. He led the ascetic life for nearly eighty years in a mountain cave of Egypt. He is recorded to have lived 110 years.

Venerable Elias the Hermit, of Egypt is commemorated 8 January by the Eastern Orthodox and Byzantine Catholic Churches.

See also

*Desert Fathers
*Stylites

References

* [http://ocafs.oca.org/FeastSaintsViewer.asp?SID=4&ID=1&FSID=100131 Orthodox Church in America]


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