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St. Moses the Black — He Led 75 Killers. The Catholic Church Calls Him a Saint.
In this episode of Everyday Saints, a Catholic podcast about the real lives of the saints, host John O'Connor tells the story of St. Moses the Black — a former slave, murderer, and leader of a violent gang of seventy-five men who terrorized the Nile Valley in fourth century Egypt.
He once swam a river at night with a sword in his teeth to settle a score over a barking dog.
He died thirty-five years later with his hands open — greeting the men who came to kill him. Without raising a hand in defense.
What happened in between is one of the most dramatic transformations in the history of the…
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