Editing Onuphrius (section)

==Veneration==
[[Image:Saint onuphre.jpg|thumb|150px|left|Onuphrius depicted as a "wild man".]]

Both the Eastern Orthodox and Catholic churches traditionally mark his [[feast day]] on [[June 12 (Orthodox Liturgics)|12 June]].<ref>[https://oca.org/saints/lives/2000/06/12/107799-venerable-onuphrius-the-great "Venerable Onuphrius the Great", Orthodox Church in America]</ref> A ''Life'' of Onuphrius of later Greek origin states that the saint died on June 11; however, his feast day was celebrated on June 12 in the Eastern Orthodox calendars from an early date.

The legend of Saint Onuphrius was depicted in [[Pisa|Pisa's]] camposanto (monumental cemetery), and in [[Rome]] the church [[Sant'Onofrio (Rome)|Sant'Onofrio]] was built in his honor on the [[Janiculan Hill]] in the fifteenth century.{{sfn|Butler|Burns|2000|p=96}}

Antony, the [[archbishop of Novgorod]], writing around 1200 AD, stated that Onuphrius' head was conserved in the church of Saint Acindinus (Akindinos), [[Constantinople]].<ref name="autogenerated1">{{cite web|url=http://www.santiebeati.it/dettaglio/56850|title=Sant' Onofrio su santiebeati.it|website=Santiebeati.it|access-date=2018-03-17}}</ref>

For several decades Orthodox seminarians in [[Poland]] have begun their spiritual training in the monastery of St. Onuphrius in Jablechna. It is said that the saint himself chose the place for it, appearing nearly four hundred years ago to fishermen and leaving them an icon of himself on the banks of the [[Bug (river)|river Bug]].<ref name=ukrainian>{{Cite web |url=http://www.ukrainian-orthodoxy.org/saints/beauty/OnuphriusEng.htm |title="Venerable Onuphrius the Great", Ukrainian Orthodoxy |access-date=2013-03-28 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080725072601/http://www.ukrainian-orthodoxy.org/saints/beauty/OnuphriusEng.htm |archive-date=2008-07-25 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

The [[St. Onuphrius Monastery]] in [[Jerusalem]] is located at the far end of Gai Ben Hinnom, the [[Gehenna]] valley of hell, situated within the site of a Jewish cemetery from the [[Second Temple period]]. The structure is built among and includes many typical burial niches common to that period. The monastery also marks the location of Hakeldama, the purported place where [[Judas Iscariot]] hanged himself.

Saint Onuphrius was venerated in [[Munich]], [[Basel]], and southern [[Germany]], and the Basel [[Renaissance Humanism|humanist]] [[Sebastian Brant]] (who named his own son Onuphrius<ref name=autogenerated3>Peter W. Parshall; Rainer Schoch, National Gallery of Art (U.S.); ''Origins of European Printmaking'' (Yale University Press, 2005), 319.</ref>) published a broadside named ''In Praise of the Divine Onuphrius and Other Desert Hermit Saints''.<ref name=autogenerated3 /> Onuphrius was depicted in a 1520 painting by [[Hans Schäufelein]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bridgemanartondemand.com/art/205761/St_Onuphrius_c1520|title=Art.com - Bridgeman Collection|website=www.bridgemanartondemand.com|language=en|access-date=2018-03-17}}</ref>

===Art===
[[File:Battistello Caracciolo - St Onophrius - WGA04067.jpg|thumb|left|[[Battistello Caracciolo]], Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica, Rome]]
[[Image:Yilanli (Snake) Church.jpg|thumb|right|175px|Fresco of Onuphrius (on left) in the [[Snake Church]].]]
Images of Saint Onuphrius were conflated with those of the medieval "[[wild man]]".<ref>[http://www.nga.gov/press/exh/206/index.htm National Gallery of Art | Press Office<!-- Bot generated title -->] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080830070851/http://www.nga.gov/press/exh/206/index.htm |date=2008-08-30 }}</ref> In art, he is depicted as a wild man completely covered with hair, wearing a girdle of leaves.{{sfn|Butler|Burns|2000|p=96}}

He is depicted at [[Snake Church]] (''Yilanlı Kilise'') in the [[Churches of Göreme, Turkey|Göreme valley open-air museum]] in [[Cappadocia]], [[Turkey]].<ref>[http://www.goreme.org/churches/yilanli/index.htm "Yilanlı Kilise", Goreme.org]</ref>

He became the [[patron saint]] of weavers due to the fact that he was depicted "dressed only in his own abundant hair, and a loin-cloth of leaves".

He (S. Onofrio) was named co-patron of the city of [https://web.archive.org/web/20120328113921/http://www.santonofrio.com/home.htm Palermo] in 1650.
[[File:Bonsi onofrio DPA 6300023.jpg|thumb|[[Giovanni Bonsi (painter)|Giovanni Bonsi]], "[https://library.nga.gov/permalink/01NGA_INST/1p5jkvq/alma99489783804896 Saint Humphrey with a Donor]," 1380, Villa La Pietra, Florence, photo by Foto Reali, Foto Reali Archive, [https://www.nga.gov/research/library/imagecollections.html Department of Image Collections, National Gallery of Art Library, Washington, DC]]]

===Name variants===
His name appears very variously as '''Onuphrius''', '''Onouphrius''', '''Onofrius''' and in different languages as '''Onofre''' (Portuguese, Spanish), '''Onofrei''' (Romanian), '''[[Onofrio]]''' (Italian), etc. In [[Arabic]], the saint was known as ''Abū Nufir'' ({{langx|ar|ابو نفر}}) or as ''Nofer'' ({{langx|ar|نوفر}}), which, besides being a variant of the name Onuphrius, also means "herbivore".<ref name=autogenerated1 /> Onuphrius and Onofrio are sometimes Anglicized as '''[[wikt:Humphrey|Humphrey]]''', an unrelated name that is usually given a [[Germanic name|Germanic]] etymology.<!--as in wiktionary-->

===Folklore===
Sicilians pray to Saint Onuphrius when they have lost something. The prayer has many variants but it generally mentions the miraculous properties of Saint Onuphrius' hair. It is widely accepted that repeating the prayer whilst looking for something like keys, a misplaced ring, or anything else, will greatly help in finding it sooner.{{Citation needed|date=January 2012}}

St Onophrius' remains (Reliquary) are held in a sanctuary at [[Sutera]] (Sicily) where a feast is held in his honor every 1st Sunday of August and the saint's remains are carried around the town with a priest, marching band and pilgrims.{{Citation needed|date=July 2023}}