Venerable

Isaac of the Cells

Venerable ascetic in the Egyptian desert, at the Cells; the sources preserve few details.

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Era: unknown
Order: Venerables

Life

Isaac of the Cells was an Egyptian monk who lived in the fourth and fifth centuries at Nitria in Lower Egypt. He is one of the Desert Fathers. He was a disciple of Cronius of Nitria and succeeded him in 395. One source says that later Archbishop Theophilus excommunicated him as an Origenist, along with the Four Tall Brothers. He died after the year 407.