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The Badass of the Week: St. Moses the Black

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"St Moses the Black" with Fr Jerome Sanderson Part 1 of 7 Parts

In his 5th century AD Ecclesiastical History, written about 70 years after Moses's death, Hermias Sozomen sums up Moses's legacy as follows:

"So sudden a conversion from vice to virtue was never before witnessed, nor such rapid attainments in monastical philosophy. ..

... nor such rapid attainments in monastical philosophy. Hence God rendered him an object of dread to the demons and he was ordained presbyter over the monks at Scetis.

After a life spent in this manner, he died at the age of seventy-five, leaving behind him numerous eminent disciples."

— Sozomen, in his Ecclesiastical History, Book VI, Chapter XXIX

Moses The Black's real story has some similarities to that of Victor Hugo's character —Jean Valjean (Les Misérables).

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