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[Moses the Black]

Desert Father and Martyr, c. 405

Moses of Ethiopia (d. c. 405), sometimes called Moses the Black, was a fifth century monk who lived in one of several isolated desert monasteries near Scete in Lower Egypt. He was described as being tall, strong, black of body, and in his early life, the hot-blooded leader of a marauding robber band.

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