Miniature depicting Syncletica of Alexandria, from the Menologion of Basil II (c. 1000 AD)
Nun, Desert Mother
Died
4th century Roman Egypt
Venerated in
Oriental Orthodox Churches Eastern Orthodox Church Catholic Church Episcopal Church
Feast
5 January 6 January
Syncletica of Alexandria (Greek: Συγκλητική, translit. Synkletikḗ) was a Christian saint, ascetic, anchorite, and Desert Mother from Roman Egypt in the 4th century AD. She is the subject of The Life of Syncletica, a Greek hagiography purportedly by Athanasius of Alexandria (d. 373) but not published until 450; and the Alphabetical and Systematic Apophthegmata (probably compiled in the 6th century), which included 28 of her sayings and teachings. She died at the age of 80, after a three-year-long illness from mouth cancer.
Girls and young women, despite Syncletica's resistance, were drawn to her and to her teachings, and chose to live near her in the desert. Her teachings and sayings were full of Biblical quotes, allusions, and metaphors, especially about sailing, the sea, domestic chores, and female tasks. Unlike male ascetics of the time, domesticity for Syncletica was connected with spirituality and "richly capable of expressing the ascetic's spiritual growth".[1] Her teachings "promote spiritual life as a dynamic, embodied reality and they do this in a way that unusually appropriates women's bodies and women's work as useful means by which one might think about and speak of spiritual life".[2]
^Wheeler 2014, p. 76.
^Wheeler 2014, p. 77–78.
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