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Venerable Sisoes the Great

Also known as Sisoes of Egypt

A great father of the Egyptian desert who struggled sixty years in the cave once hallowed by St Anthony, and who, dying with his face shining like the sun, still prayed for a little more time to repent.

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Sources: OCA Synaxarion (oca.org), Lives of the Saints