Saint Moses
This was the place where St. Moses went to seek the knowledge of the true God after hearing a voice.
What is Wadi El-Natroun / Wilderness of Shehet (Skete)?
At just twelve years old, St. Mary ran away to this major Egyptian city, where she lived in sin for many years.
What is Alexandria?
When her parents died, St. Paesia first used her house for this purpose.
What is a place of shelter for those in need?
True or False – When attacked by the Berbers, St. Moses tried to flee to save his life.
What is False?
Before becoming a monk, he was a notorious robber and gang leader in Egypt.
Who is St. Moses the Black?
Before his conversion, St. Moses was known for committing these kinds of actions, making him feared by many.
What are killing, robbing, and evil acts?
Mary traveled with a group of young men to this city for the veneration of the Holy Cross.
What is Jerusalem?
This happened to St. Paësia on her way to the monastery with St. John the Short.
What is passing away before arriving there?
This saintly woman, known for her tears and prayers, was St. Augustine’s mother.
Who is St. Monica?
Most of these saints lived in this type of environment to seek holiness and pray in solitude.
What is the desert?
This monk first met St. Moses and brought him to St. Macarius the Great to be baptized.
Who is St. Isidore?
After being turned away from the church, St. Mary of Egypt prayed before an icon of this holy figure who then guided her life of repentance.
Who is the Theotokos (Virgin Mary)?
The monks sent this Desert Father to bring St. Paesia back to repentance.
Who is St. John the Short?
St. Augustine left to Carthage at age 17 to do this.
What is studying rhetoric and becoming a scholar?
After her parents died and she lost her family’s wealth, she began to stray from virtue before eventually turning to a life of prayer, fasting, and solitude.
Who is St. Paesia
At night, St. Moses quietly served the other monks by doing this act of humble labor.
What is carrying and filling their water pots from far away?
After her conversion, St. Mary of Egypt did this for 47 years.
She fled to the desert to live as an ascetic.
St. Paesia immediately did this after St. John the Short visited her.
She left everything behind and followed St. John to the monastery.
After going to Milan and hearing St. Ambrose’s sermons, St. Augustine started reading this part of the Bible.
What is the New Testament?
What important lesson can we learn from the lives of St. Augustine, St. Mary of Egypt, St. Moses the Black, and St. Paesia?
It’s never too late to change, make better choices, and grow closer to God
The devil did this to St. Moses’ body to make him sick and bedridden.
What is a sore on his foot?
St Zosima met St. Mary of Egypt in the desert, and she later asked him to bring this.
What is the Holy Communion?
St John the Short saw this vision after St. Paesia passed away on their way.
Angels taking St. Paesia’s soul up to heaven.
St. Augustine heard a child’s voice saying this when he was in the gardens, which sparked his conversion.
“Take up and read.”
What do St. Augustine, St. Mary of Egypt, St. Moses the Black, and St. Paesia all have in common?"
These saints all experienced a dramatic change in life through repentance and God’s grace