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Saint Khairemon
egyptian hermit
SaintPre-congregation
Feast: 16 August (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Born
280
Died
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unknown
Beatified
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not needed: before formal processes
Canonised
By tradition
recognised before formal processes began
Who they were
Chaeremon or Cherimon (born c. 282 – died after 392) was an Egyptian Christian monk who lived around the 4th and 5th centuries AD in the Nitrian Desert of Lower Egypt. He was one of the Desert Fathers.
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The miracles
Limited information available on this saint.
Why that counted as sanctity
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Sources
- Wikidata Q31094053 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
- English Wikipedia — Chaeremon of Nitria (CC BY-SA)
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