Honorific Prefix: | Saint |
Pior | |
Honorific Suffix: | Hermit |
Birth Date: | 3rd century |
Birth Place: | Egypt |
Death Date: | 4th century |
Death Place: | Egypt |
Feast Day: | 17 June |
Saint Pior (or Prior; 4th century) was an Egyptian monk and hermit in the desert of Scetis, one of the Desert Fathers, and a disciple of Anthony the Great. He lived to a great age.His feast day is 17 June.
The Monks of Ramsgate wrote in their Book of Saints (1921),
The hagiographer Alban Butler (1710–1773) wrote in his Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Other Principal Saints under June 17,
Sabine Baring-Gould (1834–1924) in his Lives Of The Saints wrote under June 17,
Henry Ruffner (1790–1861) in his The Fathers of the Desert draws on Sozomen and writes,
Palladius of Galatia (d. 420) writes,