The Story of Saint Mary of Egypt, a Prostitute Who Repented and Became a Saint

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Saint Mary of Egypt, who lived in the early centuries of Christianity, is honored as a saint by Catholics and by the orthodox. This remarkable story is how she is remembered by both. Her Catholic feast day is April 1.

The theotokos who has a role in her story is the Virgin Mary. Theotokos is a Greek word meaning mother of God.
 
In the East, the 5th Sunday of great lent is always dedicated to her.
 
I heard her story on EWTN - a few years back -
shocking lasciviousness - everywhere she went -

Then the powerful invisible wall -
after all, she was in the Holy City -
Sinners think they can just waltz right in - ?
Brazen.

Then 4-5 decades in the desert. That’s hardly comprehensible.
I can’t fathom - such abandonment -
I’ve read St. Anthony - and his battles - with demons - but a woman ?
 
"St. Mary of Egypt was born in about 466 AD. At the age of 12, she ran away from home to Alexandria, where she lived on the street, giving away her favors to feed herself. She loved a good party and her endless capacity for wine brought even more men to her. For 17 years she indulged in an “irrepressible desire for lying in filth.”
So what happened to the no doubt hundreds of men who over the 17 years sampled her “favors”. When they died did they go to Hell, or were they granted forgiveness? Seems only fair that if the cause of their sin was forgiven, their sins should also be forgiven.
 
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So what happened to the no doubt hundreds of men who over the 17 years sampled her “favors”. When they died did they go to Hell, or were they granted forgiveness? Seems only fair that if the cause of their sin was forgiven, their sins should also be forgiven.
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Close. If they repented and accepted God’s mercy even at the hour of their deaths, they were. It’s independent of her conversion. Matthew 20: 1-16. Let’s pray that they did.
 
Here’s one of the icons depicting her

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clarkgamble1 said:
So what happened to the no doubt hundreds of men who over the 17 years sampled her “favors”. When they died did they go to Hell, or were they granted forgiveness? Seems only fair that if the cause of their sin was forgiven, their sins should also be forgiven.
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So I guess you don’t think she deserves to be a saint?
 
Well, she was forgiven because she repented, and became a saint because she loved God dearly after that. The men sinned out their own free will even if she tempted them. If THEY repented as well, that would be out of their own free will too and with the grace of God. I’m sure St. Mary of Egypt prayed for and made sacrifices for them during her years in the desert.
 
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Oh ! I really didn’t heard of her.But I had read about St.Antony too.June 13th is st.Antony’s Feast.I have shared a unfailing prayer to st.Antony in Bennat’s Kitchen in youtube.
 
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