Saint Isidore of Scetes (died ) was a 4th-century A.D. Egyptian Christian priest and desert ascetic.
Isidore was one of the
Desert Fathers and was a companion of
Macarius the Great
Macarius of Egypt, ''Osios Makarios o Egyptios''; cop, ⲁⲃⲃⲁ ⲙⲁⲕⲁⲣⲓ. (c. 300 – 391) was a Christian monk and hermit. He is also known as Macarius the Elder or Macarius the Great.
Life
St. Macarius was born in Lower Egypt. ...
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John Cassian
John Cassian, also known as John the Ascetic and John Cassian the Roman ( la, Ioannes Eremita Cassianus, ''Ioannus Cassianus'', or ''Ioannes Massiliensis''; – ), was a Christian monk and theologian celebrated in both the Western and Eastern c ...
lists him as the leader of the one of the four monastic communities of
Scetes.
The ''Roman Martyrology'' describes the blessed Isidore as renowned for holiness of life, faith and miracles.
His feast day is 15 January.
Monks of Ramsgate account
The monks of
St Augustine's Abbey, Ramsgate, wrote in their ''Book of Saints'' (1921),
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Butler's account
The hagiographer
Alban Butler wrote in his ''Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Other Principal Saints'',
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Saints from Roman Egypt
390 deaths
Desert Fathers