Alaphion

Holy Venerable Alaphion was a Christian monk of Gaza in the late fourth century. The church historian Sozomen, who knew him, says that Saint Hilarion the Great healed him of a demon in the city of Bethel. Alaphion had first gone to Jewish and pagan doctors and exorcists, but no one had succeeded in freeing him; the monk Hilarion, merely invoking the name of Jesus Christ, drove the demon out.

From then on Alaphion began to preach Christianity with particular zeal, especially in cities with Hellenized populations, and founded many churches and monasteries. In the time of the Emperor Julian the Apostate he preferred to lose his property rather than deny Christianity. From then on he became a monk.