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Venerable Lot 11/4/2013
A great Egyptian ascetic. He was a contemporary of the Holy Abbas Arsenius the Great and Agathon. He led an ascetic struggle in his monastery on the lakeshore near the city of Arsinoe and guided many brothers on the road to salvation. His close companion and councillor was Abba Joseph. One day, Abba Lot asked Abba Joseph: ”Abba, I fast as much as I can, I live in prayer and hesychia, and according to my strength I guard myself from sinful thoughts. What else should I do?” Then the old man got up, stretched his hands towards heaven and his fingers became as ten flames of fire. So he said to him:” You should become altogether like a fire that consumes itself.” Having had pleased God and counselled many on their road to salvation, Saint Lot fell asleep in peace in the 5th century.
