Having fallen in love with the hermit lifestyle, Saint Maron went to the top of Mount Cyra in Antioch, where there was an old pagan temple. He dedicated that place to God the Life-Giver and settled there, under a small shelter, for years enduring both heat and frost. There he worked as an ascetic in a continuous battle with demons. And God poured out great grace upon him. Saint Maron, having resisted all demonic temptations at their former meeting place, later founded several monasteries and ascetic places in which he brought a large number of souls to God. Having obtained the gift of healing, he gave each sufferer according to his measure, always adhering to one remedy: prayer to God. After a short illness, he gave up his soul to the Lord. He lived in the 4th century.

Venerable Auxentius. Saint Cyril of Slavonia. Venerable Isaac, the Prisoner of the Caves.