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Venerable Elias the Hermit was a desert dwelling monk of the fourth century AD. He led the ascetic life for nearly eighty years in a mountain cave of Egypt. He is recorded to have lived 110 years.
Venerable Elias the Hermit, of Egypt is commemorated 8 January by the Eastern Orthodox and Byzantine Catholic Churches.
