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Venerable-Martyr · 5th century

10 000 Martyred Fathers of the Deserts of Scete

Also known as the Martyred Fathers of Nitria and Scete

A great multitude of monks of the Nitrian desert who were slain amid the strife over the teaching of Origen in the days of Patriarch Theophilus of Alexandria.

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Notes

Named large monastic group; individual names not preserved.

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