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Saint Paul the Hermit was born in Alexandria in AD 288. He quarreled with his brother over the inheritance of their father. He left to devote himself to a hermitage and to isolation.
Another story mentioned that Saint Paul escaped out of fear that his brother-in-law would give false testimony against him to the Roman governor.
He settled in the Eastern Desert, where God sent him food every day, half a loaf of bread carried by a crow. He had not seen another human being for eighty years until God sent him Saint Antony to attend to his death and burial.
Later a monastery was built at the site of his hermitage called Al Maqrizi or Monastery of the Tigers. |
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