St. Moses the Black

An Ethiopian slave in Egypt, dismissed by his master for theft and violence, who became the leader of a band of robbers and was feared along the Nile, and then became a monk at Scetis and a priest. The Sayings keep him as the father who would not judge: summoned to a council to condemn a brother, he came carrying a basket full of holes, filled with sand, and said, my sins run out behind me and I do not see them, and I have come today to judge the sins of another. When Berber raiders came in about 405 he told his brothers to flee and stayed, with seven who would not leave him, and they were killed. Feast: August 28.