Angels & Saints by Eliot Weinberger

Author:Eliot Weinberger
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780811229876
Publisher: New Directions
Published: 2020-08-17T14:31:59+00:00

Paul the Simple

(Egypt, 4th century)

At sixty, he discovered his wife in bed with a neighbor, and left his farm to become a desert hermit; his nickname came from his childlike demeanor.

Onuphrius

(Egypt, 4th or 5th centuries)

He lived seventy years in the desert, dressed only in his long hair and beard, fed perhaps by angels.

Proterius

(Egypt, d. 457)

In the schism between the Coptic Orthodox and Greek Orthodox churches, he replaced Dioscorus as Patriarch of Alexandria, was lynched by an angry mob on Good Friday, his body dismembered and burnt, and was replaced by Timothy the Cat.

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