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ICON
Saint Onophrios
 
 

LOCATION
Al Damshiriah
Old Cairo
 

Saint Paphnoute the Hermit discovered the ascetic Saint Onophrios during Paphnoute's travels in the desert and wrote a biography about him.
 
 
  Source:  Coptic Icons, vol. I
(Cairo, Egypt:  Lehnert & Landrock, 1998):  102.