Nilo wa Sinai

Nilo wa Sinai (pia: Nilo wa Ankara, Nilo Mzee; karne ya 4 – 430 hivi) anafikiriwa kuwa mfuasi wa Yohane KrisostomoNikephoros Kallistos, hist. Eccl., 14, 53, 54..

Baada ya kuwa meya wa jiji la Konstantinopoli, alikwenda kuishi kama mmonaki kwenye Mlima Sinai pamoja na mtoto wake Theodulo, huku mke wake na mtoto mwingine wakienda kuishi vilevile nchini Misri. 

MwishoniTillemont, ib., p. 405. akawa kwa muda mrefu abati wa monasteri karibu na Ankara, Galatia, leo nchini Uturukihttps://www.ccel.org/ccel/wace/biodict.html?term=Nilus,%20an%20ascetic%20of%20Sinai, maarufu pia kwa maandishi yake kuhusu maisha ya kiroho The writings of St. Nilus of Sinai were first edited by Petrus Possinus (Paris, 1639); in 1673 Suarez published a supplement at Rome; his letters were collected by Possinus (Paris, 1657), a larger collection was made by Leo Allatius (Rome, 1668). All these editions are used in Patrologia Graeca, vol. 79.http://www.santiebeati.it/dettaglio/92745.

Tangu kale anaheshimiwa na Kanisa Katoliki na Waorthodoksi kama mtakatifu. 

Sikukuu yake ni tarehe 12 NovembaMartyrologium Romanum.

Tazama pia
Watakatifu wa Agano la Kale
Orodha ya Watakatifu Wakristo
Orodha ya Watakatifu wa Afrika
Orodha ya Watakatifu Wafransisko
Mababu wa Kanisa

Tanbihi

Vyanzo
Nikephoros Kallistos, Hist. Eccl., XIV, xliv
Leo Allatius, Diatriba de Nilis et eorum scriptis in his edition of the letters (Rome, 1668)
Tillemont, Mémoires pour servir à l'histoire ecclésiastique, XIV (Paris, 1693–1713), 189-218;
Fabricius-Harles, Bibliotheca graeca, X (Hamburg, 1790–1809), 3-17;
Ceillier, Histoire générale des auteurs sacrés, XIII (Paris, 1729–1763), iii;
Josef Fessler-Bernard Jungmann, Institutiones Patrologiœ, II (Innsbruck, 1896), ii, 108-128.

Viungo vya nje

Saints.SQPN: Nilus the Elder
Catholic Online: Nilus the Elder
Venerable Nilus the Faster of Sinai in Orthodox Church in America
 https://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/nilo-di-ancira-detto-l-asceta-il-vecchio-o-il-sinaita-santo/

Jamii:Waliozaliwa karne ya 4
Jamii:Waliofariki 430
Jamii:Wamonaki
Jamii:Waandishi wa Kigiriki
Jamii:Mababu wa Kanisa
Jamii:Watakatifu wa Uturuki