Elias the Hermit

Venerable Elias the Hermit was a desert dwelling monk of the fourth century AD. He led the ascetic life for nearly eighty years in a mountain cave of Egypt. He is recorded to have lived 110 years.
Venerable Elias the Hermit, of Egypt is commemorated 8 January by the Eastern Orthodox and Byzantine Catholic Churches.
== See also ==
*Desert Fathers
*Stylites
== References ==
*Orthodox Church in America
Category:Religious occupations
Category:Egyptian hermits
 Monasticism
Category:4th-century Christian saints
Category:Eastern Orthodox saints
Category:Eastern Catholic saints
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