Moses the Black
Monk, priest and martyr in Egypt · Religious Figures · Lived 320 to 395 · aged 75
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Something wrong?A fourth-century bandit who walked away from violence and became one of the Desert Fathers - the hermit monks who retreated to Egypt's wastelands to strip life down to prayer and silence.
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Преподобный Моисей Мурин. Фрагмент новгородской иконы конца XV века
Melkite Catholic Patriarchate of Jerusalem 2978
Св. Мојсеј Мурин од Мариово
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Prophet Elijah, Venerable Pimen the Great and Moses Murin
Saint Moses of Ethiopia Fresco, Mariovo
Saint Moses of Ethiopia Fresco. Gračanica
Saint Moses of Ethiopia Greek FrescoIn their own words 2
, A brother once erred at Scete and a council was held. They sent for Abba Moses but he was unwilling to come.
A brother visited Abba Moses at Scete asking him for a saying. The elder said to him: “Go and stay in a cell; your cell will teach you everything.
About this person
Moses was Nubian, born around 330, and the stories say he lived by crime before something turned him. He left that life and joined the desert ascetics in Egypt, becoming a hieromonk - a monk in holy orders - among the men who would shape early Christian monasticism. His conversion was sharp enough that later generations called him Moses the Strong, Moses the Robber, a man who had been one thing and became another. The historian Sozomen wrote about him roughly seventy years after his death in 405, and by then Moses was already a figure both Orthodox churches would venerate: proof that the distance between violence and holiness could be crossed.
Religious Figures born in the 320s 2
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