Moses The Black
Saint Moses the Black (Coptic: Ⲁⲃⲃⲁ Ⲙⲱⲥⲏ) (330–405), (also known as Abba Moses the Robber, the Ethiopian and the Strong) was an ascetic monk and priest in Egypt in the fourth century AD, and a notable Desert Father.
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