Feast day: April 1
St. Mary of Egypt
A woman of Alexandria who lived for years in reckless sin, was stopped by an unseen force at the door of a church in Jerusalem, repented, and spent forty-seven years alone in the desert.
After a lifetime of sin she fled into the desert beyond the Jordan and lived there nearly half a century in penance — one of the great conversion stories of the East.
Get a story like this every Sunday.