Ammon of Egypt

Holy Venerable Ammon of Egypt is a Father of the Egyptian desert about whom no certain details have been preserved. It is said that he reached a perfection of gentleness: he laboured for fourteen years and prayed to God only to overcome anger within himself, until he no longer noticed that evil existed in the world. He was a good student of the Holy Scriptures and died at the beginning of the fifth century.

The Serbian Church commemorates him on 10 January by the old calendar (23 January by the new). In the Russian tradition he is remembered on Cheesefare Saturday, in the Synaxis of All the Venerable Fathers who shone forth in asceticism, a movable day.