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Venerable Dorotheus the Hermit of Egypt

Also known as Dorotheus of the Thebaid

An Egyptian hermit who labored sixty years in the Skete desert and was remembered by Palladius as a severe ascetic and spiritual elder.

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