Venerable
Phorbinus of Egypt
Silent hermit of Egypt
An Egyptian ascetic known for his silence and struggles.
- Feast
- April 5old style April 18
- Reposed
- 3954th century
- Order
- Venerables
Life
Holy Venerable Phorbinus of Egypt, the silent one, was a disciple of the hermit Theonas. He spent thirty years in silence. He died around the year 395, not far from Oxyrhynchus.
The venerable one is commemorated on 18 April. The Azbyka page preserves no other details of his life.
Commemorated the same day April 5
Job of MoscowSaint · First Patriarch of MoscowApr 5
Plato of SakkoudionVenerable · Abbot of SakkoudionApr 5
Philip I of MoscowSaint · Metropolitan of MoscowApr 5
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Mark of AthensVenerable · Hermit and fool for ChristApr 5- Agathopus of ThessalonikiMartyrApr 5
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Argyre of ProusaNew MartyrApr 5- Nicholas SimoHieromartyr · ArchpriestApr 5
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Theodulus of ThessalonikiMartyrApr 5- AbdiesusSaintApr 5