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Saint Onuphrius

Desert father

SaintEgyptPre-congregation

Feast: 12 June (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)

Born
320
Died
400
Beatified
not needed: before formal processes
Canonised
By tradition
recognised before formal processes began

Who they were

Onuphrius or Onophrios (Latin; Ancient Greek: Ὀνούφριος, Onoúphrios) lived as a hermit in the desert of Upper Egypt in the 4th or 5th centuries. He is venerated as Saint Onuphrius in both the Roman Catholic and Eastern Catholic churches, as Venerable Onuphrius in Eastern Orthodoxy, and as Saint Nofer the Anchorite (Arabic: نوفر) in Oriental Orthodoxy.

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The miracles

Limited information available on this saint.

Why that counted as sanctity

Limited information available on this saint.

Sources
  • Wikidata Q464959 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
  • English Wikipedia — Onuphrius (CC BY-SA)

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