Venerable Isidora of Tabennisi in Egypt, who hid her holiness beneath the appearance of folly.
Isidora was a nun of the women's monastery of Tabennisi in Egypt in the fourth century. She took the lowliest tasks of the kitchen, ate only scraps, and let the sisters mock her as a simpleton, bearing everything without complaint.
Tradition relates that the hermit Pitirim was shown by an angel that this despised sister surpassed him in virtue; when he came and bowed before her, the sisters repented of their contempt. Unable to endure their honor, Isidora quietly left the monastery and ended her life in obscurity.
Feast day
On the New Calendar, Isidora the Fool-for-Christ is commemorated on May 1. Churches on the Old (Julian) Calendar keep the feast on May 14 of the civil calendar.
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