Venerable Psoi of Egypt

Commemorated on August 9.

The cripple disappeared, and when Saint Psois finally reached the top, he found his disciples there.

"Where have you been? Where is Christ?" they asked.

He answered, "It is not necessary to seek Him on the mountain, but in one's neighbor."

Saint Psoi reposed in the year 417, while he was praying. His relics are incorrupt and rest in the monastery of Al-Sirian in the V century church, on the left side of the iconostasis. His body has been preserved completely incorrupt, just as it was in his lifetime. 1 Sebastian P. Brock, in his book Singer of the Word of God: Ephrem the Syrian and His Significance in Late Antiquity , states that Saint Ephraim lived east of the Euphrates River in the second and third quarters of the IV century, and that he never visited Saint Basil, or Saint Psoi.