Amun«Αμμούν ο Αιγύπτιος / Αμμωνάς / Ⲁⲙⲟⲩⲛ / Ἀμοῦν / Ἀμμώνιος / Ammon / Ammonas / Ammonius the Hermit»
(c. 258–c. 320)
Anchorite, Hermit, Monk
Desert Father
Place of birth:Province of Egypt (Roman Empire)†
Place of death:Province of Egypt (Diocese of the East) (Roman Empire)††
Place(s) associated with:Kellia†††; Nitrian Desert††††; Wadi El Natrun†††††
Feastday
1 October
†Provincia Aegypti (Imperium Romanum) / Ἐπαρχία Αἰγύπτου (Βασιλεία τῶν Ῥωμαίων) [30 BC– 270 / 273–297]
††Provincia Aegypti (Dioecēsis Orientis) (Imperium Romanum) / Ἐπαρχία Αἰγύπτου (Διοίκησις Ἑῴα) (Βασιλεία τῶν Ῥωμαίων) [297–c. 380]
†††المنى / Κελλίων [338–9th cent.]
††††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