Aris of Egypt

Holy Venerable Aris of Egypt was one of the fathers who struggled in the Egyptian desert. His sayings are preserved in the collection Apophthegmata Patrum and in the collection of sayings of Venerable Paul of Amorion. They give a picture of the ascetic practice of the Egyptian hermits.

His commemoration under 13 December is found in the Greek verse synaxaria. In the calendar of the Russian Church, Aris is remembered on 13 March, in the Synaxis of All Venerable Fathers Who Shone Forth in Ascetic Labour.