ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN OCTOBER Saints celebrated on the 4th of October WELCOME! SAINT AMMON, HERMIT Sometimes called Amun or Amus ; he was born about 350. He was an Egyptian who, forced into marriage when twenty-two years old, persuaded his wife on the bridal night to pronounce a vow of chastity, which they kept faithfully, though living together for eighteen years; at the end of this time he became a hermit in the desert of Nitria, and she formed a congregation of religious women in her own house. Nitria, to which Ammon betook himself, is a mountain surmounted by a desolate region, seventy miles south of Alexandria, beyond Lake Mareotis (which Palladius called Maria ). At the end of the fourth century there were fifty monasteries there inhabited by 5,000 monks. Saint Jerome called the place " The City of God". As to whether Ammon was the first to build a monastery there, authorities disagree, but it is certain that the fame of his sanctity drew ...