One of the oldest skeleton is that of a hermit named Stephanos, a 6th century monk who is now dressed in the black vestments of a monk with a white cross on hi cap. He is said, by John of Climax, to have lived on the holy mountain of Sinai for many years in a lonely dwelling, where he struggled on behalf of monasticism and was a man of many virtues.

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