Elias the Hermit

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Elias the Hermit, fresco from Gračanica Monastery (1320).

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 Orthodox and Byzantine Catholic Churches.

References[]

• Orthodox Church in America

See also[]

• Desert Fathers
• Stylites