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Leaving everything to pray, yet still drawing people who needed wisdom.

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June 17 · Hermit

St. Pior

St. Pior

Leaving everything to pray, yet still drawing people who needed wisdom.

Traditional feast

June 17
1914 / pre-1969 calendar, per Baring-Gould (1897)

Current feast

June 17
Secondary source · Wikipedia

Represents

Hermit

Early life

The book says little or nothing about early life. This is how the account begins.

Thin entry · the 1897 book gives only 0 words. We have not filled the gap with invented detail.

What they represent

How they teach us to live

Drawn from themes in the original account

Learn from the kind of life it was. Leaving everything to pray, yet still drawing people who needed wisdom.

Keep their day. Remember them on June 17 with a short prayer, and ask for their help.

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Read Baring-Gould’s full account

Baring-Gould’s sources: Greek Meoaea. Authority: — Palladium, in his Lives of the Fathers of the Desert, and S. Ammonius (d. circ. 365), in a letter on his visit to SS. Pachomius and Theodore.] S. Pior was a disciple of the great abbot Anthony. He was once sent by the abbot to his sister, who was very anxious to see him. He went to her house, knocked at her door, and she received him with great joy and affection. But he kept his eyes shut, and said, 44 Take thy fill of looking at me,,> and then he hied back to his cell in the desert. This he did that solitaries might learn not to allow themselves to be entangled with the world through visits to or from their relatives. Once at a conference he came in with a sack of sand on his back, and a little sand in a basket before him. “We are too fond of flinging our own faults behind our backs, that we may fix all our attention on the foibles and failings of others,” said he.

Feast days

Feast: June 17

Nine days · Free

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One short email a day for nine days. The day's prayer, a line from St. Pior's story, and a nudge to keep going.

Also on June 17
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Sts. Nicander and Marcian

June 17 · Martyrs
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Sts. Manuel

June 17 · Martyrs
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St. Bessarion

June 17 · Abbot
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Sources & notes

Feast-day sources

Sources

Credits

From Sabine Baring-Gould, The Lives of the Saints, new edition in 16 vols. (London: John C. Nimmo, 1897–98); text from the Internet Archive scan (OCR, lightly cleaned; errors possible). Public domain.

From Sabine Baring-Gould, The Lives of the Saints, new edition in 16 vols. (London: John C. Nimmo, 1897–98); text from the Internet Archive scan (OCR, lightly cleaned; errors possible). Public domain in the United States. Reproduced unedited, except for short bracketed notes in grey that we added to explain names and terms (“S.” is the old abbreviation for Saint). Some history and judgments reflect 19th-century scholarship.