Saint Isidore of Scété

Memorial

• 15 January

Profile

Desert hermit. Priest of Scété, Egypt. Worked to bring angry or negligent brother desert monks back to proper devotion.

Died

• c.394

Canonized

• Pre-Congregation

Additional Information

• Abbé Stéphane Ansart
• Book of Saints, by the Monks of Ramsgate
• Lives of the Saints, by Father Alban Butler
• Our Sunday Visitor’s Encyclopedia of Saints

MLA Citation

• “Saint Isidore of Scété“. Saints.SQPN.com. 14 January 2013. Web. 23 May 2013. <>