Bandit to Saint - St. Moses the Black

He Started on the Wrong Path, and Sought Redemption... Bandit to Saint - St. Moses the Black

Moses was highly praised by his contemporaries. In his 5th century AD Ecclesiastical History, written about 70 years after Moses's death, Hermias Sozomen sums up Moses's legacy as follows:

So sudden a conversion from vice to virtue was never before witnessed, nor such rapid attainments in monastical philosophy. Hence God rendered him an object of dread to the demons and he was ordained presbyter over the monks at Scetis. After a life spent in this manner, he died at the age of seventy-five, leaving behind him numerous eminent disciples.[9]

— Sozomen, in his Ecclesiastical History, Book VI, Chapter XXIX
A modern interpretation honors Moses the Ethiopian as an apostle of non-violence. His relics and major shrine are found today at the Church of the Virgin Mary in the Paromeos Monastery, a Coptic Orthodox monastery located in Wadi El Natrun in Egypt.[10]

He was a spiritual guide to many a young monk and to many Christians over the generations. Some of his well-known teachings include:

"Do no harm to anyone; do not think anything bad in your heart towards anyone; do not scorn the man who does evil, do not put confidence in him who does wrong to his neighbor; do not rejoice with him who injures his neighbor. This is what dying to one’s neighbor means."[10]

“When someone is occupied with his own faults, he does not see those of neighbor.”[10]

"If a man’s deeds are not in harmony with his prayer, he labors in vain.”

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