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Sisoes the Great
early Christian saint
SaintResearchedPre-congregation
Feast: 6 July (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Born
350
Died
429
Beatified
—
not needed: before formal processes
Canonised
By tradition
recognised before formal processes began
Who they were
In Egypt, Saint Sisoes, called the Great, hermit, most outstanding in the practice of the monastic life.
The miracles
There was never a formal cause: he has been honoured as a saint since before the Church's formal processes began.
Why that counted as sanctity
The Roman Martyrology remembers him on 6 July as an Egyptian hermit outstanding in the monastic life.
Connected on this site
- Anthony the Great Saint“Sisoës the Great (also Sisoi the Great, Sisoy the Great, Sisoes of Sceté or Shishoy; Coptic: ⲁⲡⲁ ϫⲓϫⲱⲓ; died 429 AD) was an early Christian desert father, a solitary monk pursuing asceticism in the Egyptian desert in a cave of his predecessor, St Anthony the Great.” — Wikipedia
Sources
- Roman Martyrology, 6 July (Italian Bishops' Conference, Santo del giorno)
- Wikidata Q2026581 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
- English Wikipedia — Sisoes the Great (CC BY-SA)
Checked against the sources listed on 22 September 2026. Corrections welcome.