Editing Onuphrius (section)

{{Short description|Egyptian hermit and saint}}
{{for|the 15th-century papal legate|Onofrio de Santa Croce}}
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|honorific_prefix=[[Saint]]
|name=Onuphrius
|birth_date=320 AD
|death_date=400 AD
|feast_day=[[12 June]] (Western & Byzantine)<br>16 [[Paoni]] (Departure - [[Coptic Christianity]])<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.copticchurch.net/synaxarium/10_16.html#1 |title=Lives of Saints :: Paona 16 |publisher=Copticchurch.net |access-date=2020-02-27}}</ref><br>16 [[Hathor (month)|Hathor]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.copticchurch.net/synaxarium/3_16.html#2 |title=Lives of Saints :: Hator 16 |publisher=Copticchurch.net |access-date=2020-02-27}}</ref> (Consecration of Church - [[Coptic Christianity]])
|venerated_in=[[Eastern Orthodox Church]]<br>[[Roman Catholic Church]]<br>[[Oriental Orthodox Churches]]<br>[[Eastern Catholic Churches]]
|image=Saint Onuphrius Emmanuel Tzanes.png
|caption=Saint Onuphrius by [[Emmanuel Tzanes]], 1662
|birth_place=Ethiopia
|death_place=Egypt
|titles=Hermit
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|attributes=[[loincloth]] made from [[leaves]], [[beard|long beard]] and [[long hair|hair]];  hermit with an angel bringing him the Eucharist or bread; hermit with a crown at his feet<ref name=autogenerated6>{{cite web |title= Saint Onuphrius | url = http://saints.sqpn.com/sainto14.htm | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080804031426/http://saints.sqpn.com/sainto14.htm | archive-date = 2008-08-04 |website= Patron Saints Index | date= 2008-08-04}}</ref><ref name="Stracke">{{cite web |last1=Stracke |first1=Richard |title= Saint Onuphrius: The Iconography| url = http://www.christianiconography.info/onuphrius.html |website= Christian Iconography | date=2015-10-20}}</ref>
|patronage=weavers;<ref name=autogenerated6 /> jurists<ref name=autogenerated5>{{cite web  |author= lüder h niemeyer |title= Onuphrius of Egypt, Patron also of Weavers & Jurists; Cort, Cornelis: Saint Onuphrius with the Rosary| url = http://www.luederhniemeyer.com/prints/15267_e.php | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20081011120342/http://www.luederhniemeyer.com/prints/15267_e.php | url-status = usurped | archive-date = October 11, 2008 | date=2015-10-20}}</ref> [[Centrache]], [[Italy]]<ref name=autogenerated6 />
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'''Onuphrius''' (also '''Onoufrios'''; {{langx|el|Ὀνούφριος|Onouphrios}}) lived as a [[hermit]] in the desert of [[Upper Egypt]] in the 4th or 5th centuries. He is venerated as '''Saint Onuphrius''' in both the [[Roman Catholic Church|Roman Catholic]] and [[Eastern Catholic Church|Eastern Catholic]] churches, as '''Venerable Onuphrius''' in [[Eastern Orthodox Church|Eastern Orthodoxy]], and as '''Saint Nofer the Anchorite''' in [[Oriental Orthodoxy]].{{sfn|Butler|Burns|2000|p=94}}