Feast day: June 12
St. Onuphrius
One of the most famous of the Egyptian desert hermits, who by tradition lived alone in the wilderness for some seventy years, clothed only in his own long hair and a girdle of leaves.
His extreme solitude made him a favorite subject of medieval art across Europe — the wild-haired hermit fed, it was said, by an angel.
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