(CE:1310b)
ISIDORUS OF SCETIS, SAINT, fourth-century monk and priest. The alphabetical collection of the APOPHTHEGMATA PATRUM devotes two distinct chapters to Isidorus and to Isidorus the priest, but apart from some extracts from ISIDORUS OF PELUSIUM it appears that all the items relate to the same person: Isidorus "the great," priest of Scetis, of whom Cassian also speaks in his Conferences. A strenuous ascetic and a man of prayer, he was known for his gentleness and patience. From the time he became a monk, he never burst into anger, and this mastery of himself won for him an extraordinary authority over the demons, and also miracle-working powers. One day he restored sight to a blind man. Above all, he had the gift of healing souls, and was successful in the most difficult cases. Without remission he labored with all his might because, he said, "the Son of God has come here for us."
No special notice is devoted to him in the SYNAXARION, but he is described as a saint in an apothegm taken up in the notice in the Alexandrian Synaxarion devoted to Zacharias.
LUCIEN REGNAULT
