Saint Eusebius the Hermit was a fourth-centurySyrianmonk.[1][2]
Eusebius undertook a rigorouslyascetic lifestyle without shelter near a mountain village named Asicha.
According toEastern Christian sources:
Though he was elderly and infirm, he ate only fifteen figs during theGreat Forty day Fast. When many people began to flock to St. Eusebius, he went to a nearbymonastery, built asmall enclosure at the monastery walls and lived in it until his death.[3]
Saint Eusebius the Hermit of Syria is commemorated 15 February by theEastern Orthodox andByzantine Catholic Churches.
