The Desert and the Confessors

Saint Mary of Egypt c. AD 522

The Penitent

Commemorated

April 1

Lived

c. AD 522

A great sinner of Alexandria turned great ascetic, who spent forty-seven years alone in the desert beyond the Jordan in repentance. Her life, read in Great Lent, is the Church's icon of repentance.

Holy Mary of Egypt, pray to God for us.