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Venerable Nilus the Sinaite 11/25/2013
He became Prefect of Constantinople. As a married man he had a son and a daughter. Watching the impious life in the capital, he agreed with his wife to separate and both of them to withdraw from the world. So they did. His wife and daughter left for a women’s monastery in Egypt, while he and his son Theodulus withdrew to Mount Sinai. For sixty years Saint Nilus led ascetic struggle on Sinai. He wrote wonderful books on spiritual life. He died in peace around 450, when he was eighty years of age. He is the author of the holy words:” The passions of the body derive from the needs of the body and therefore we need to restrain to subdue them; the passions of the soul are born of the needs of the soul for which prayer is essential.”
