Mary of Egypt was an Egyptian grazer saint said to have dwelled in Byzantine-era Palestine in the 5th century AD.
Mary of Egypt with her Life. Ukrainian icon, late 17th century. Liskowate village. Collection of the Andrey Sheptytsky National Museum of Lviv.
Saints Zosimas, Mary of Egypt, Maximus the Confessor, Macarius of Egypt, and Macarius of Alexandria. Icon, 17th century. Pantocrator. Mount Athos.
Athonite fresco Icon of 7th century Patriarch Sophronius of Jerusalem, the historical figure credited as writing the hagiography of Mary of Egypt.
Nuremberg Chronicle image of Mary of Egypt. The palm leaf refers to Mary's pilgrimage.
The grazers or boskoi were male and female Christian hermits and anchorites who lived in the first millennium of the Christian era, mainly in the Christian East, in Syria, Palestine, Pontus, Mesopotam
Mary of Egypt
…Coptic: Ϯⲁⲅⲓⲁ Ⲙⲁⲣⲓⲁ Ⲛⲣⲉⲙⲛ̀ⲭⲏⲙⲓ; Egyptian Arabic: مريم المصرية/ماريا المصرية; Amharic/Geez: ቅድስት ማርያም ግብፃዊት; Latin: Maria Aegyptiaca) was an Egyptian grazer saint said to have dwelled in Byzantine-era Palestine in the 5th century AD (in late antiquity / Early Middle Ages). The hagiography The Life of Our…
Saint Paul, "The First Hermit", Jusepe de Ribera, Museo del Prado (1640)
Russian-style icon of Saint Mary of Egypt, surrounded by scenes from her life (17th century, Beliy Gorod).
Mar Saba monastery, founded by the disciples of Sabbas the Sanctified, a Palestinian grazer hermit and monk
Paul the Hermit, by Jusepe de Ribera (1644)