"My name is Onnophrius, and for sixty years I have lived in this solitary place and desert. I walk in the mountains like the wild beasts, and I live on the plants and trees, and I have not seen anyone I know."
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Onuphrius
Onuphrius was a Christian hermit and saint who lived in the desert of Upper Egypt during the 4th or 5th centuries.
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