Alonius of Egypt

Venerable Alonius of Egypt (in Greek Alonios) lived in the fourth and fifth centuries. A few of his sayings are preserved in both the Coptic and Greek versions of the collection of the Apophthegmata Patrum. His sayings are included in the Paterikon of Saint Ignatius Brianchaninov.

The Greek synaxaria give 4 June as the day of his repose. No other traces of the veneration of this venerable one have survived. His commemoration was translated into Slavonic in the twelfth century, in the Prologue of Constantine of Mokisia, and in the sixteenth century was entered under 4 June in the Great Menaion Reader. He is also commemorated on 13 March, in the Synaxis of All the Venerable Fathers Who Shone in Ascetic Labours.