Ammonas, Saint, active 4th century
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Ammon, Saint, active 4th century
Ammonas, Abba, active 4th century
Ammonas, Saint, 4th cent.
Amonas, Saint, active 4th century
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found: Lettres des Pères du désert, c1985:t.p. (Ammonas) p. 1 (saint Ammonas) p. 3 (disciple of St. Anthony; series of apophthegms attrib. to him in alph. coll. of sayings of the Desert Fathers; according to them he was later a bishop, but only evid. it was of Oxyrhynchus comes from info. in a 13th cent. Syriac ms.)
found: New Cath. encyc.:v. 9, p. 1034 (Ammonas, disciple of Anthony, named bishop of Oxyrhynchus by Athanasius; to be distinguished from Ammon, founder of Nitrian colonies)
found: Quasten, J. Patrology, 1950- :v. 3, p. 153 (Ammonas: after Antony's death [356 A.D.] the colony of hermits at Pispir was under the guidance of Ammonas, one of his oldest disciples; seven of his letters have come down in a Greek version, and 15 in Syriac)
found: Holweck, Biog. dict. of the saints, 1924(Ammon (Amonas), friend of St. Antony, elected bishop of some see in Egypt in the 4th cent.; feast 26 Jan.; x-ref. from Ammonas)
found: Useful servanthood, c2010:ECIP t.p. (Abba Ammonas)
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1987-05-05: new
2013-03-18: revised
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