Mary of Egypt
Egyptian hermit and female Christian saint · Egypt · Religious Figures · Lived 344 to 421 · aged 77
Mary of Egypt is read about 360 times a day, in 38 languages.
A typical day, 30 days to 8 October 2026
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Something wrong?A 5th-century desert ascetic who became the patron saint of repentance after, according to her hagiography, an icon physically blocked her from entering the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem - turning a self-described life of lust in Alexandria into 47 years of solitude beyond the Jordan River.
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About this person
The story comes through the monk Zosimas of Palestine, who met Mary near the Jordan and heard her account: she had traveled from Alexandria to Jerusalem explicitly to seduce pilgrims bound for the Elevation of the Holy Cross, but at the church threshold an icon of the Theotokos barred her entrance and instructed her to cross the river into the desert. A year after their first meeting, Zosimas witnessed her walking on water to receive communion. When he returned the following year, he found her body and buried her on divine instruction. The tale, credited to Sophronius, Patriarch of Jerusalem in the 7th century, was read into the record at the Second Council of Nicaea in 787 as evidence for the power of icons during the iconoclasm debates. Her historicity remains uncertain, though her feast day appears in the martyrologies of Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, and Coptic tradition.
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