# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/paul-of-thebes
# Generated: 2026-09-01T03:36:24.207Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/paul-of-thebes"
name: "Paul of Thebes"
slug: "paul-of-thebes"
description: "The claim: a teenage Egyptian fled to the desert around 243 AD and stayed there alone for ninety-seven years, becoming the template for Christian hermit life—a story that shaped monasticism even as historians puzzle over whether anyone actually saw him."
tagline: "Christian hermit"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Dolci_Saint_Paul_the_hermit.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "EG"
category:
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profileType:
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  slug: "religious-figure"
birthDate: "227"
deathDate: "342"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           23.11592533333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
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  country:  null
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Paul of Thebes reportedly left civilization at sixteen, retreating into the Egyptian desert during the Roman period and remaining there until his death near 341. The account holds he lived in complete solitude for nearly a century, outlasting emperors and empire shifts without witnesses. By the time of his canonization in 491 by Pope Gelasius I, the narrative had already calcified into archetype: the original Christian anchorite, the hermit against which all others were measured. Today the Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, and Oriental Orthodox churches all venerate him, even as the extraordinary span—113 years, nine decades alone—sits uneasily with the sparse historical record.