Righteous Syncletike of Alexandria
Saint
Syncletike was from Alexandria in Egypt. She lived eighty-three years in
virginity and asceticism, and became the leader and teacher of many nuns. What
Saint Anthony the Great was to men, she became to women: a model of
mortification of the flesh, of patience in afflictions, and of wise
instruction; for this, she is known a "Amma," a title corresponding
to "Abba." Towards the end of her long life, she was stricken with an
exceedingly painful disease, which she endured with faith and magnanimity. She
reposed in the middle of the fourth century. It is said of Saint Syncletike that
she was the virgin who hid Saint Athanasius from the Arians for more than a
year in the environs of Alexandria, and it is to Saint Athanasius that her life
is ascribed (PG 18:1488-1557).
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