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Pambo
Egyptian Desert Father
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Feast: 18 July (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Born
350
Died
375
Beatified
—
not needed: before formal processes
Canonised
By tradition
recognised before formal processes began
Who they were
Pambo of Nitria (died c. 390) was a Coptic Desert Father of the fourth century and disciple of Anthony the Great. His feast day is July 18 among the Oriental Orthodox, Eastern Orthodox, and Catholic churches.
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The miracles
Limited information is available on this saint so far.
Why that counted as sanctity
Limited information is available on this saint so far.
Connected on this site
- Anthony the Great Saint Teacher“390) was a Coptic Desert Father of the fourth century and disciple of Anthony the Great.” — Wikipedia
Sources
- Butler's Lives of the Saints (Thurston & Attwater, Christian Classics 1990), 18 July — 'ST PAMBO (c. A.D. 390)' — Egyptian desert father of Nitria, disciple of St Antony; Butler's entry is at 18 July, matching the feast on the list. Local corpus supplied with this task; no online copy of this edition could be fetched, so no URL is c
- Wikidata Q3650657 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
- English Wikipedia — Pambo (CC BY-SA)
Not yet written up in full. The Catholic source above names this person; the name, dates and step come from Wikidata and are not yet checked against Church records.