SAINT
saint-onuphrius
A saint of the Catholic Church
biography
Onuphrius lived as a hermit in the desert of Upper Egypt in the 4th or 5th centuries. He is venerated as Saint Onuphrius in both the Roman Catholic and Eastern Catholic churches, as Venerable Onuphrius in Eastern Orthodoxy, and as Saint Nofer the Anchorite in Oriental Orthodoxy.
feast Day
06-12
patronages
- weavers
- jurists Centrache
- Italy
birth Date
320 AD
death Date
400 AD
canonization Status
venerable
feast Month
6
feast Day Of Month
12