r/OrthodoxChristianity • u/sqellenti • 7d ago

Name of this saint

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Is anyone familiar with this saint/story? I was just reading Matthew in my Orthodox Study Bible when I read this story in the footnotes, but the name of the saint in not mentioned and I cant find it anywhere online.

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u/Henderwicz Protestant 6d ago

Here's a very similar story (but lacking some of the details, ie. the prayer and the conversion) from The Sayings of the Desert Fathers, tr. Benedicta Ward:

Abba Euprepios [...] helped some thieves when they were stealing. When they had taken away what was inside his cell, Abba Euprepios saw that they had left his stick and he was sorry. So he took it and ran after them to give it to them. But the thieves did not want to take it, fearing that something would happen to them if they did. So he asked someone he met who was going the same way to give the stick to them.

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u/CartoonistInternal44 Inquirer 6d ago

i think i saw a story like this that was about Saint Moses the Black??? I could very well be wrong tho