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Venerable (Monastic) · 4th century

Venerable Hellius of Egypt

Also known as Hellius

An Egyptian raised in a monastery from childhood who withdrew into the desert, where by long struggle he received the gifts of abstinence and of taming the wild beasts.

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Sources: OCA Synaxarion (oca.org), Lives of the Saints