Cloud of Witnesses
Venerable (Monastic) 4th century

Venerable Apollonius Ascetic, of Egypt

Also known as Apollonius of the Thebaid

A desert father of the Egyptian Thebaid who from youth devoted himself to asceticism and gathered around him a community of some five hundred monks.

Feast Day
March 31
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Their life

A desert father of the Egyptian Thebaid who from youth devoted himself to asceticism and gathered around him a community of some five hundred monks.

His companions & kin
Venerable (Monastic)
Venerable Paul of Thebes
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Anthony the Great
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Venerable Onuphrius the Great
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Venerable John Andrew, Heraclemon, and Theophilus of Egypt
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Venerable Paisius the Great
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Venerable Sisoes the Great
Sources: OCA Synaxarion (oca.org), Lives of the Saints