Moses of Sinai

Venerable Martyr Moses of Sinai, called in the service also "the other Moses", is one of the fathers slain at Sinai and Raithu by Saracens and Blemmyes, tribes of nomad Arabs, with Isaiah, Sabbas, Moses, Jeremiah, Paul, Adam, Sergius, Domnus, Proclus, Hypatius, Isaac, Macarius, Mark, Benjamin, Eusebius and Elijah. The service names one of them, Moses, the disciple of the other.

The page tells that the first slaying took place around the year 312 and was described by the Egyptian monk Ammonius, witness of the slaying of forty fathers of Sinai, while at Raithu another thirty-⁠nine were slain. The second slaying took place after a hundred years and was described by Venerable Nilus the Faster, who escaped in a wondrous way. The ascetics lived in silence in their cells all the week, on Saturday gathered for the all-⁠night vigil, and on Sunday received Communion; they ate only dates and drank water. The page gives no details of this Moses in particular. He is commemorated on 27 January and on 5 May, a movable day, with the Synaxis of the Venerable Fathers of Sinai, in the new style.