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Venerable (Monastic) · 4th century

Venerable Pambo the Hermit of Egypt

Also known as Pambo of Nitria

A great father of the Nitrian desert, of such gravity and silence that he weighed every word, and whose face shone like Moses' so that the brethren could not gaze upon it.

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Notes

Not Pambo of the Kiev Caves (same day).

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