These two saints were brothers, and their father Valentinus, the Roman Caesar, was a God-fearing man and a supporter of Christianity, who raised his two sons and their little sister in the fear of the Lord. When Maximus and Domadius grew up, they longed for monastic life. They asked their father to allow them to […]
We hardly know anything about his past before his repentance except that he was black in colour, and it seems that he was from one of the Berber tribes. His life was so evil that it was said that there was no vice he did not complete. As for his birth, he was born between
The perfect man, the beloved lover of our good Saviour. He was born in Shansha, a village in Menoufia Governorate, around 320 A.D. He was one of six brothers whose father passed away and their mother raised them. The mother saw an angel asking her: ‘The Lord says to you, ‘Give me one of your
