John the Dwarf«Ἰωάννης Κολοβός / ابو يحنّس القصير / John Kolobos»
(c. 339–c. 395)
Hermit
Desert Father
Place of birth:Province of Thebais (The Thebaid) (Diocese of the East) (Romain Empire)†
Place of death:Province of Thebais (The Thebaid) (Diocese of Egypt) (Byzantine Empire)††
Place(s) associated with:Mount Colzim†††; Nitrian Desert††††; Wadi El Natrun†††††
Feastday
17 October
†Provincia Thebais (Thebaid) (Dioecēsis Orientis) (Imperium Romanum) / ἐπαρχία Θηβαΐς (Θηβαΐδος) (Διοίκησις Ἑῴα) (Βασιλεία τῶν Ῥωμαίων) [c. 304–c. 380]
††Provincia Thebais (Thebaid) (Dioecēsis Aegypti) (Imperium Romanum) / ἐπαρχία Θηβαΐς (Θηβαΐδος) (Διοίκησις Αἰγύπτου) (Βυζαντινή Αυτοκρατορία) [c. 380–641]
†††Inner Mountain of Saint Anthony / Κλῦσμα / ⲡⲉⲕⲗⲟⲩⲥⲙⲁ / القلزم
††††صحرای نیترین / έρημο της Νιτρίας
†††††وادي النطرون / Ϣⲓϩⲏⲧ / Σκήτις / ⲙⲡϩⲙⲟⲩ / ⲫⲁⲛⲓϩⲟⲥⲉⲙ
Saints
This is by no means an exhaustive collection of saints. Many newly canonised saints may be missing and many local saints for which I could only find scant information on have been left out. But this is a substantial collection nonetheless.
The names of the saints are listed as they would have appeared in the time the saint lived (to the best I can determine). Click on the saint’s name in the list to see more information about that saint. If you wish to see saints for a different date, select that date below. Or you can select a saint by their name or by places they are associated with.
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Sources
Information has been gathered predominantly from the following books:
D’Arcy, Mary Ryan. The Saints of Ireland. St. Paul, MN: Irish American Cultural Institute. 1974.
Kelly, Sean and Rogers, Rosemary. The Saint-a-Day Guide. New York: Random House Trade Paperback. 2001.
Ó Riain, Pádraig. A Dictionary of Irish Saints. Dublin: Four Courts Press. 2011.
Thurston S.J., Herbert J. and Attwater Donald, eds. Butler’s Lives of the Saints. Westminster, MD: Christian Classics. 1990
and the following websites:
and various vetted articles in: Wikipedia