Sarah of the Desert
Early 5th century AD — Mid-5th century AD · Feast day: July 13
Sarah of the Desert spent sixty years in a hermit's cell near the Nile in fifth-century Egypt, mastering temptation through radical stillness and the daily rehearsal of death. When monks came to test her pride, she answered without flinching: 'According to nature I am a woman, but not according to my thoughts.'