October 27
St. Abraham the Poor (372)
Born in the town of Menuf, he became of disciple of Saint Pachomius, who founded cenobitic monasticism, in the Delta river region of the Nile River. He remained a disciple of Saint Pachomius for 23 years, after which he spent the following seventeen as a cave hermit.
Listed in some records as "the Poor" or "the Child," allusions to his purity of heart and to the simplicity of his lifestyle ways.
