Moses the Black
Monk, priest and martyr in Egypt
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Updated 2026-05-29
Fourth-century desert monk who traded banditry for extreme monasticism. Moses the Black's redemption arc caught enough attention in early Christian circles to outlast him by decades—Sozomen was still writing about his conversion centuries later.
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Moses the Black, also known as Moses the Strong, Moses the Robber, and Moses the Nubian, was a Nubian ascetic hieromonk in Egypt in the fourth century AD, and a Desert Father. He is highly venerated in the Eastern Orthodox Church and the Oriental Orthodox Church. According to stories about him, he converted from a life of crime to one of asceticism. He is mentioned in Sozomen's Ecclesiastical History, written about 70 years after Moses's death.
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