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	Onuphrius - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Onuphrius (Greek: Ονούφριος), venerated as Saint Onuphrius in the Catholic Church and Venerable Onuphrius in Eastern Orthodoxy, traditionally lived as a hermit in the desert of Upper Egypt in the late 4th century.
		In Eastern Orthodoxy, Onuphrius is supposed to had been a virtuous young girl who, in order not to lose her virginity to a persistent suitor, had her wish to become a man granted by divine intervention.
		Onuphrius became a popular subject in Mediæval art: the period traditions of the "wild man" may partially account for this.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Onuphrius (260 words)

	St. Onuphrius - Olga's Gallery
		Onuphrius lived for 70 years as a hermit in the desert near Thebais, Upper Egypt.
		Onuphrius died c.400 and was buried by St. Paphnutius who had come to him to learn if the hermit's life was for him.
		In fine arts he is usually depicted as an old man dressed only in long hair and a loincloth of leaves; hermit with an angel bringing him the Eucharist or bread; hermit being buried by two lions (his story was sometimes confused with Saint Jerome's).
	www.abcgallery.com /saints/onuphrius.html (211 words)

	CANADA COURIER: Ottawa gets another church - in a museum (08/25/96)
		Onuphrius Ukrainian Catholic Church, which made an over 3,500-kilometer or 2,200-mile journey from Smoky Lake, Alberta, to the Canadian Museum of Civilization in Hull (across the river from Ottawa), is clearly the exception.
		Indeed, St. Onuphrius Church is, so far, the most authentic artifact in the Canada Hall and part of the permanent exhibition's reflection of life in western and northern Canada between 1885 and the present.
		Onuphrius was the first of more than 30 churches the French-born Oblate priest built on the Canadian prairies.
	www.ukrweekly.com /Archive/1996/349610.shtml (777 words)

	An Albanian Ikon ?
		The cult of St Onuphrius was popular throughout Christendom, East and West, in the Middle Ages, initially with monks, and then in general.
		Onuphrius told him that he had been a monk in an austere monastery of 100 monks near Thebes but, having felt called to imitate Saint John the Baptist, had left to follow the eremitical life.
		The next morning Onuphrius told Paphnutius that the Lord had told him he, Onuphrius, was soon to die and Paphnutius had been sent by the Lord to bury him.
	www.beyond-the-pale.co.uk /albanian3.htm (670 words)

	Saints of June 12
		The next morning Onuphrius told Paphnutius that the Lord had told him he, Onuphrius, was to die and Paphnutius had been sent by the Lord to bury him.
		Onuphrius did die, Paphnutius buried him in a hole in the mountainside, and the site immediately disappeared, as if to tell the abbot that he was not to remain there.
		Onuphrius is the patron of weavers, probably because "he was dressed only in his own abundant hair and a loin-cloth of leaves," and of a Sienese confraternity (Roeder).
	www.saintpatrickdc.org /ss/0612.htm (2653 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Onuphrius immediately sent the man to sleep again and restored his own prodigious beard.
		Onuphrius and the young man spent the day in prayer and meditation.
		Onuphrius caused the woman to fall asleep and to dream that she was back in the village.
	www.mytholog.com /fiction/peterson_onuphrius.html (833 words)

	:Touring Ukrainian Ottawa 4: ST ONUPHRIUS UKRAINIAN-CATHOLIC CHURCH (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Onuphrius, and its associated cemetery, served the Ukrainian Catholic community of Smoky Lake until 1964.
		Onuphrius is the only genuine building, an artifact in itself.
		Onuphrius Church, a historic building from Smoky Lake, Alberta, generously donated by its congregation.
	www.infoukes.com /ucpbaott/docs/tour4.htm (554 words)

	Civilization.ca - Media
		Onuphrius Ukrainian Catholic Church has made a remarkable journey.
		Onuphrius is a small church: just 12 metres x 7 metres (approximately 39 feet x 23 feet) and only 9 metres (29.5 feet) high.
		The decision to move St. Onuphrius Church to the Museum was made after extensive research and numerous field trips.
	www.civilization.ca /media/show_pr_e.asp?ID=134 (674 words)

	St. Onufrius
		St Onuphrius the Great lived for 70 years as a hermit in the desert near Thebais in Upper egypt.
		He lived on the fruits of a date palm-tree that grew near his cell and he was clothed only in an apron of leaves and his own long hair.
		St Onuphrius is a patron saint of weavers.
	www.unicorne.org /orthodoxy/articles/answers/onufrius.htm (239 words)

	Barsonuphius, Abbot Of Alexandria And Those With Him
		However, he was arrested and imprisoned in terrible conditions in stuffy, damp basements, where his cassock rotted away from the damp and, besides other sorrows of imprisonment in that terrible time, there were so many insects exasperating the prisoners that they had to be scraped off like rubbish.
		Barsonuphius was released and was appointed by Bishop Onuphrius (Gagalyuk) to a parish in the village of Verkhniye Vairaki, near Elisavetgrad, where by his sincere and zealous service he soon won general respect both among the lay believers and among the clergy.
		The rise of renovationism revealed him to be a firm warrior in defence of the truth of the Church and a fearless exposer of the schismatics.
	www.orthodox.net /russiannm/barsonuphius-abbot-of-alexandria-and-those-with-him.html (5348 words)

	Prolog: June 12 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		However, Onuphrius said: "I mostly feed and quench my thirst on the sweet words of God." To Paphnutius' question: "How do you receive Communion?" The hermit answered that an angel of God brings him Holy Communion every Saturday and communicates him.
		Having honorably buried the body of Onuphrius, Paphnutius returned to his monastery that, as a living witness he narrate to others, for their benefit, the wondrous life of this man and the greatness of God's Providence about those who have completely given themselves over to the service of God.
		Onuphrius died in the year 400 A.D. Peter was a Greek by birth and a soldier by profession.
	www.westsrbdio.org /prolog/my.html?month=June&day=12&Go.x=7&Go.y=14 (1456 words)

	Church Bulletin - Annunciation Church, Modesto, CA
		Therefore, recognizing the divine Fathers as heralds of the Faith after the divine Apostles, the Church of Christ has appointed this present Sunday for their annual commemoration, in thanksgiving and unto the glory of God, unto their praise and honour, and unto the strengthening of the true Faith.
		Saint Onuphrius flourished in the fourth century, first in the cenobium near Hermopolis of Thebes in Egypt, and later as a solitary in the desert, where he was discovered by Saint Paphnutius.
		After relating his life and the bitter conflicts he had endured as a hermit, Onuphrius told Paphnutius that he was about to die, and that Paphnutius had been sent to bury him, which soon came to pass.
	www.bulletin.goarch.org /ChurchBulletins/46/061205/Feasts.html (535 words)

	Content: One Church, assembly required
		Onuphrius is a small church, just 12 meters x 7 metres (approximately 39 feet x 23 feet) and only 9 meters (29.5) feet high.
		Their communities stretched in an arc between southeastern Manitoba and northwestern Alberta, a distance of about 1,500 kilometers.
		Onuphrius Ukrainian Catholic Church remains a sacred building.
	www.smokylake.com /history/churches/assemblyrequired.htm (661 words)

	Prologue: hagiographies of the saints
		In his youth, Onuphrius became angry with his parents and declared before the Turks that he was going to convert to Islam.
		Because of his determination and with the blessing of his spiritual father, he departed for Trnovo where he reported to the Turks, proclaimed himself a Christian, and ridiculed Muhammad.
		Because of that, Onuphrius was beheaded on January 4, 1818, in his thirty-second year.
	www.mpc.org.mk /English/Calendar/prologue.asp?id=1013 (109 words)

	MYTHOLOG Summer 2003 - Short Fiction & Poetry of Mythic Proportions (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		You may not be familiar with the hagiography of Saint Onuphrius the Great, though there are churches dedicated to him and ikons for his veneration.
		Onuphrius was clothed in nothing but a loincloth of leaves and in his very long hair, and he ate from a solitary fig tree.
		When St. Onuphrius 'fell asleep', St. Paphnutius bured him in the cave.
	www.mytholog.com /v1n3.html (1077 words)

	St. Onufry Church moves to Ottawa
		Onuphrius was a monk who lived in Egypt during the fourth century.
		Onuphrius is often pictured as a wild, unkempt figure, usually flanked by two lions.
		It is believed that St. Onuphrius Ukrainian Catholic Church was originally named Onufria, suggestive of Kolo Onufria, "kolo" being an expression used to designate a site near a persons home.
	www.smokylake.com /history/churches/onufry.htm (213 words)

	The Feast of the Theophany
		For the past four years, the Ukrainian Catholic Church in Ottawa has celebrated the Feast of the Theophany in St. Onuphrius Church, which is housed in the Canada Hall of the Museum of Civilization.
		The worship space is divided almost equally between the chancel and the nave by an ornate rood screen.
		That this ceremony takes place in a church dedicated to St. Onuphrius is appropriate as this Saint imitated the solitude of St. John the Baptist.
	www.catholicinsight.com /online/church/liturgy/printer_theophany.shtml (694 words)

	Lemming's Progress: two more saints
		While on a short break from rereading the less memorable portions of Green Book, I thumbed through a book of primary source documents collection in which women describe their experiences on the 19th century wagon trains.
		Onuphrius was a fifth century hermit who lived in the deserts of Egypt for sixty years, clad only in his overgrown beard and long hair.
		Onuphrius was famously "clad only in his own hair", because it was considered holy to have a beard that would be long enough to cover the genitals, thus doing away with the need for clothing, a source of vanity for him, being a hermit.
	lemmingsprogress.blogspot.com /2005/05/two-more-saints.html (454 words)

	Onuphrius . Eastern Orthodoxy . Egypt . 4th century (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Onuphrius Greek language Greek: Ονούφριος, venerated as Saint Onuphrius in the Catholic Church and Venerable Onuphrius in Eastern Orthodoxy, traditionally lived as a hermit in the desert of Upper Egypt in the late 4th century.
		The account of his disciple, Paphnutius, who encountered him in the Egyptian desert, forms the sole source for our knowledge of the life of Saint Onuphrius, who became a monk at a cenobitic monastery near Thebes Egypt Thebes, which he left to lead an eremitic life.
		Asceticism is the set of disciplines practiced to work out the believer s salvation, and further the...
	www.uk.fraquisanto.net /Onuphrius (364 words)

	Civilization.ca - Media (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Gatineau, Quebec, January 4, 2005 — All are welcome to celebrate the Feast of the Theophany in traditional Ukrainian Catholic style on Wednesday, January 19, 2005 at the Canadian Museum of Civilization.
		The Canadian Museum of Civilization houses St. Onuphrius Church, the former home of the Ukrainian Catholic parish in Smoky Lake, Alberta.
		In regular use from 1915 until 1963, the twelve by seven metre building was maintained by the parish until the 1990s, when members of the community disassembled it piece by piece and helped in its meticulous reconstruction inside the Museum’s Canada Hall.
	www.vmnf.civilization.ca /media/show_pr_e.asp?ID=546 (361 words)

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		Onuphrius was a hermit monk who lived in a cave near Thebes in Egypt and wore only a loincloth of leaves, subsisting merely on dates.
		In art, Onuphrius is portrayed an old hermit dressed only in long hair and his loincloth of leaves.
		Sometimes he may be shown as an angel brings him the Eucharist or bread, or else with a crown at his feet.
	www.wilsonsalmanac.com /book/jun12.html (2230 words)

	Civilization.ca - Canada Hall - Ukrainian Church
		This section of the Canada Hall features St. Onuphrius Church, a historic building from Smoky Lake, Alberta, generously donated by its congregation.
		Onuphrius was moved from Smoky Lake, Alberta to the Museum, where it has been meticulously reassembled, complete with all of its ritual objects, its decor and its furnishings.
		Onuphrius Church was generously donated to the Canadian Museum of Civilization by its congregation.
	www.civilization.ca /hist/phase2/mod6e.html (331 words)

	Church Bulletin - June 17, 2001 - 2nd Sunday of Matthew
		Born to a royal couple in Persia, Onuphrius was given over to the care of monks in a desert monastery in Egypt.
		A diligent student of the Scriptures, Onuphrius immersed himself totally into the ascetic disciplines of prayer and fasting.
		After a chance encounter with a monk named Paphnutius, Onuphrius, whose snow-white hair and beard nearly reached the ground by this time, fell asleep in the Lord in the year 400 A.D. Peter the Athonite lived in the 9th century.
	www.saintnicholas.org /gl-june-17-2001.htm (977 words)

	Lowe Art Museum \| 17th-19th C. European (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Saint Onuphrius depicts the 4th century hermit who rejected his royal patrimony, alluded to by the crown and royal scepter, to seek spiritual perfection through a life of deprivation in a cave in the wilderness near Thebes.
		What distinguishes Ribera’s work is the fact that the elderly saint is an unidealized, remarkably lifelike figure whose depth of spiritual experience radiates from his weather-beaten face, bloodshot eyes, and ravaged body.
		As means of inspiring religious devotion, Saint Onuphrius exemplifies the goals of Counter-Reformation painting by affording the worshipper a profoundly moving spiritual encounter.
	www.miami.edu /lowe/art_1719_european.htm (503 words)

	Trummerflora Collective - Archives - May 2001
		Sister Benedetta for soprano, viola, cello, harpsichord and tape is the setting of a version of the transcripts of a trial in 1619 of Sister Benedetta Carlini by Sean Griffin and Catherine Sullivan.
		portrays the icon Onuphrius, whose beard came to her in answer to her fervent prayers to be freed from the advances of unwanted suitors.
		This collaboration explores the destabilizing power of gender hybridity, using the transformation of sound, image and performing bodies to amplify and interrogate constructions of monstrosity.
	www.trummerflora.com /calendar/archives/2001-05.html (858 words)

	Serbian Orthodox Church - Our Holy Father Onuphrius the Great (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		And besides that, through God's gracious providence, a palm tree grew up at one side of his cell, that gave good dates, and a spring of water began to flow there.
		'But especially,' said Onuphrius, 'my food and drink are the sweet words of God.' To Paphnutius's question about his receiving of Communion, the hermit answered that the angel of God brought him Communion every Saturday.
		On the next day, the old man told Paphnutius that it was the day of his departure from this world; then he knelt down, prayed to God and gave his spirit into God's hands.
	www.serbianorthodoxchurch.net /cgi-bin/saints.cgi?view=698629819836 (350 words)

	Lviv Ukraine tourist guide - St. Onuphrius' Church (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The monastery and church of St. Onuphrius was mentioned in the old Rus' times.
		In the XVI-XIX centuries it was the prominent centre of Lviv Christian life.
		After the war both the monastery and the church were closed and returned to the Vasylians' Order in 1990
	lviv.biz /churches/onuphrius (66 words)

	Lives of Saints :: Hator 16
		The Consecration of the Church of St. Abu-Nofer (Onuphrius).
		We implore our Lord, who completed our salvation by coming down to redeem us from the bondage of sin, to help us to do what is pleasing in His sight during this holy fast and through all the days of our lives.
		On this day also was the consecration of the Church of St. Abu-Nofer (St. Onuphrius), the hermit, which was in El-Zaher, Misr (Cairo).
	www.copticchurch.net /classes/synex.php?id=76 (214 words)

	Republic of Turkey, Ministry of Culture - Nevşehir Museum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		In the 1st century AD, people called as "Hermit", who devoted themselves to religion and withdrew to solitude, lived in Egypt deserts.
		Because, he was the best example of virtue and overcoming fleshy cravings.
		In the pictures, St. Onuphrius is naked, has long hair and a huge body and stands in front of a palm tree.
	www.kultur.gov.tr /portal/arkeoloji_en.asp?belgeno=3046 (3033 words)

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