For the 15th-century papal legate, see Onofrio de Santa Croce.
Saint
Onuphrius
Saint Onuphrius by Emmanuel Tzanes, 1662
Hermit
Born
320 AD Ethiopia
Died
400 AD Egypt
Venerated in
Roman Catholic Church Eastern Orthodox Church Oriental Orthodox Churches Eastern Catholic Churches
Feast
12 June (Western & Byzantine) 16 Paoni (Departure - Coptic Christianity)[1] 16 Hathor[2] (Consecration of Church - Coptic Christianity)
Attributes
loincloth made from leaves, long beard and hair; hermit with an angel bringing him the Eucharist or bread; hermit with a crown at his feet[3][4]
Patronage
weavers;[3] jurists[5] Centrache, Italy[3]
Onuphrius (Greek: Ὀνούφριος, romanized: Onouphrios; also Onoufrios) 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.[6]
^"Lives of Saints :: Paona 16". Copticchurch.net. Retrieved 2020-02-27.
^"Lives of Saints :: Hator 16". Copticchurch.net. Retrieved 2020-02-27.
^ abc"Saint Onuphrius". Patron Saints Index. 2008-08-04. Archived from the original on 2008-08-04.
^Stracke, Richard (2015-10-20). "Saint Onuphrius: The Iconography". Christian Iconography.
^lüder h niemeyer (2015-10-20). "Onuphrius of Egypt, Patron also of Weavers & Jurists; Cort, Cornelis: Saint Onuphrius with the Rosary".
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