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Isidore of Pelusium

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==Life==
Isidore was Egyptian by birth and from a prominent Alexandrian family, which included Alexandrian Patriarchs [[Theophilus of Alexandria|TheophilosTheophilus]] and [[Cyril of Alexandria|Cyril]]. He studied all the secular disciplines, but as a youth withdrew from the world, renouncing his riches and earthly glory, so that he might devote himself entirely to the spiritual life. For a short time he taught rhetoric in Pelusium in Egypt; but soon his love for the things of God led him to flee to the desert as a solitary. After a year of [[asceticism|ascetical]] life, he returned to Pelusium, where he was [[ordination|ordained ]] to the [[priest]]hood. After a few years he retired to a [[monastery ]] where he spent the rest of his life, eventually becoming [[abbot]]. From the monastery he wrote thousands of epistles full of divine grace and wisdom; of these more than two thousand still survive.
During his lifetime, he came to be a great and energetic defender of the Orthodox Christian faith, writing (according to the historian Nicephorus) more than ten thousand letters to numerous individuals, giving reproach, counsel, encouragement, comfort, and instruction.
"To live without speaking is better than to speak without living. For the former who lives rightly does good even by his silence, but the latter does no good even when he speaks. When words and life correspond to one another they are together the whole of divine philosophy."
==Hymns==
[[Troparion]] (Tone 4)
:O God of our Fathers,
:Take not away Your mercy from us
:But ever act towards us according to Your kindness,
:And by the prayers of Your Saints
:Guide our lives in peace.
Troparion (Tone 8)
:The image of God was truly preserved in you, O Father,
:For you took up the Cross and followed Christ.
:By so doing doing you taught us to disregard the flesh for it passes away
:But to care instead for the soul, since it is immortal.
:Therefore your spirit, venerable Isidore, rejoices with the angels.
 
[[Kontakion]] (Tone 4)
:Finding you to be another morning star, O glorious One,
:The Church is illumined by the brilliance of your words.
:She cries out to you: "Rejoice, all-blessed and divinely-wise Isidore."
==Sources==
*''[[The Prologue of Ohrid]]'', by St. [[Nikolai Velimirovic]]
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[[fr:Isidore de Péluse]]
[[ro:Isidor Pelusiotul]]

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