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About St. Syncletica
c. 270 – c. 350 · Feast January 5 · Hermitess / Desert Mother
Egyptian desert mother (c. 270-c. 350), of Alexandrian Macedonian family, with her younger sister withdrew to a tomb outside Alexandria after their parents' deaths and gathered around her a community of women ascetics. Subject of a Greek Vita and many of the Apophthegmata. Pre-Congregation.
St. Syncletica is the patron saint of Nuns, Desert Mothers and Ascetics.
