Eusebius the Hermit

Saint Eusebius the Hermit was a fourth century monk solitary of Syria.
Eusebius undertook a rigorously ascetic life living without shelter near a mountain village named Asicha. 
According to Eastern Christian sources:
Though he was elderly and infirm, he ate only fifteen figs during the Great Forty day Fast. When many people began to flock to St. Eusebius, he went to a nearby monastery, built a small enclosure at the monastery walls and lived in it until his death.
 
Saint Eusebius the Hermit of Syria is commemorated 15 February by the Eastern Orthodox and Byzantine Catholic Churches.
== References ==
Orthodox Church in America
== See also ==
*Stylites
*Desert Fathers
*Poustinia
Category:Syrian hermits
Category:Eastern Orthodox saints
Category:Eastern Orthodoxy
Category:Eastern Catholicism
Category:Syrian Christian monks