Saint Apollos ( Ἀπολλώς ; contracted from Apollonius ) is an apostle who is also a 1st century Alexandrian Jewish Christian mentioned several times in the New Testament.

* Saint Apollonius, Christian martyr

In 1773 he published the Homeric Lexicon of Apollonius the Sophist from a manuscript in the abbey of Saint Germain des Pres.

These include Apollonius making his peace with animals, Saint Augustine on the need to feed people before attempting to convert them, and Dante and William Shakespeare writing on distributive justice, an aspect of their work that the poet points out is generally overlooked.

Saint Apollonius the Apologist or Saint Apollonius of Rome was a 2nd-century Christian martyr and apologist ( not to be confused with Apollinaris Claudius, another contemporary apologist ) who was martyred in 185 under the Emperor Commodus ( 161-192 ).

Four different sources speak of Saint Apollonius of Rome:

In the Middle Ages he was confused with two other saints, Apollo of Alexandria and the Apollonius who was martyred with Saint Valentine and whose feast is on 18 April.

As a result, this date was attributed also to Saint Apollonius of Rome, even in editions of the Roman Martyrology, the latest editions of which have, however, restored the date of 21 April.

: At Rome, commemoration of Saint Apollonius, philosopher and martyr.

Saint John Cassian speaks of an abbot of the Thebaid who had 500 monks under him.

* Saint Paphnutius the Confessor, Bishop in the Egyptian Thebaid ( 4th century )

* Saint Silvanus of Tabennisi ( in the Thebaid ) ( 4th c .)

* Saint Hor of the Thebaid ( 390 )

* 1294 – Saint Celestine V resigns the papacy after only five months ; Celestine hoped to return to his previous life as an ascetic hermit.

Paulinus may have been indirectly responsible for Augustine's Confessions: Paulinus wrote to Alypius, Bishop of Thagaste and a close friend of Saint Augustine, asking about his conversion and taking up of the ascetic life.

Under the great inspiration of Saint Anthony the Great ( 251-356 ), ascetic monks led by Saint Pachomius ( 286-346 ) formed the first Christian monastic communities under what became known as an Abbot, from the Aramaic abba ( father ).

She also employed other mystical ascetic works such as the Tractatus de oratione et meditatione of Saint Peter of Alcantara, and perhaps many of those upon which Saint Ignatius of Loyola based his Spiritual Exercises and possibly the Spiritual Exercises themselves.

The Emperor Leo protected the ascetic, and some time later sent Gennadius to ordain him priest, which he is said to have done standing at the foot of the column, because Saint Daniel objected to being ordained and refused to let the bishop mount the ladder.

Others chose a path away from the temptations of the secular world, most notably Saint Ivan of Rila, but their ascetic existence still drew the attention of the monarch.

Saint Moses the Black ( Coptic: Ⲁⲃⲃⲁ Ⲙⲱⲥⲏ ) ( 330 – 405 ), ( also known as Abba Moses the Robber, the Ethiopian and the Strong ) was an ascetic monk and priest in Egypt in the fourth century AD, and a notable Desert Father.

* Saint Macedonius the Crithophagus ( 4th century ), an ascetic in Antioch

Saint Helier is named for Helier ( or Helerius ), a 6th century ascetic hermit.

Saint Simeon Stylites or Symeon the Stylite (, ) ( c. 390 – 2 September 459 ) was a Christian ascetic saint who achieved fame for living 37 years on a small platform on top of a pillar near Aleppo in Syria.

In the 4th century, Saint Gregory of Nazianzus speaks of ascending Jacob's Ladder by successive steps towards excellence, interpreting the ladder as an ascetic path, while Saint Gregory of Nyssa narrates that Moses climbed on Jacob's Ladder to reach the heavens where he entered the tabernacle not made with hands, thus giving the Ladder a clear mystical meaning.

The ascetic interpretation is found also in Saint John Chrysostom, who writes:

Even before Saint Anthony the Great ( the " father of monasticism ") went out into the desert, there were Christians who devoted their lives to ascetic discipline and striving to lead an evangelical life ( i. e., in accordance with the teachings of the Gospel ).

Wolfgang's residence at Trier greatly influenced his monastic and ascetic tendencies, as here he came into contact with the great reformatory monastery of the 10th century, St. Maximin's Abbey, Trier, where he made the acquaintance of Romuald, the teacher of Saint Adalbert of Prague.

Saint Helier, a 6th century ascetic hermit, is patron saint of Jersey in the Channel Islands, and in particular of the town and parish of Saint Helier, the island ’ s capital.

Jacob was the teacher and spiritual director of Saint Ephrem the Syrian, a great ascetic, teacher and hymn writer who combatted Arianism.

John of Shanghai and San Francisco | Saint John of Shanghai and San Francisco was a noted Eastern Orthodox Church | Eastern Orthodox Asceticism | ascetic and hierarch of the ROCOR in the mid-20th century.

Saint Nicholas of Flüe () ( 21 March 1417 – 21 March 1487 ) was a Swiss hermit and ascetic who is the patron saint of Switzerland.

* Saint Gregory of Nicomedia, ascetic

* Saint James of Zheleznoborov, abbot, and his fellow ascetic also named James

It was first proposed by Apollonius of Perga at the end of the 3rd century BC and formalized by Ptolemy of the Thebaid in his 2nd-century AD astronomical treatise the Almagest.

As James Francis put it, " the most that can be said ... is that Apollonius appears to have been a wandering ascetic / philosopher / wonderworker of a type common to the eastern part of the early empire.

Seized with a desire for a life of ascetic penance, he went for a time to the desert of Chalcis, to the southwest of Antioch, known as the Syrian Thebaid, from the number of hermits inhabiting it.