Cherimon of Egypt

Venerable Cherimon of Egypt (Chaeremon) was an ascetic in Egypt in the Skete desert monastery, either at the end of the fourth century or in the early years of the fifth. His name is remembered in the Lausiac History of Palladius and in the alphabetic Paterikon. His cave stood forty stadia from the church and twelve stadia from a spring of water. The saint died at handicraft at more than a hundred years of age. He is remembered by Saint Theodore the Studite (11 November) in the Lenten Triodion, in the service for Cheesefare Saturday, in the sixth ode of the Matins canon. Cherimon is commemorated on 16 August (new style; 29 August on the old calendar).