Venerable (Monastic) · 4th century
Venerable Apollonius Ascetic, of Egypt
Also known as Apollonius of the Thebaid
A desert father of the Egyptian Thebaid who from youth devoted himself to asceticism and gathered around him a community of some five hundred monks.
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Sources: OCA Synaxarion (oca.org), Lives of the Saints