Moses NAME was a robber and murderer before becoming a saint. Moses is called many names including, Moses the Black, Moses the Strong, and Moses the Robber. Moses served under a government official in Egypt who dismissed him for robbery and suspected murder. Moses led a gang of bandits robbing and murdering along the Nile. There was one person that Moses constantly tried to rob, but failed due to a guard dog. One day Moses swam up the Nile with weapons in his mouth, to rob the person because he was angry. It again failed, so Moses killed some of the person’s sheep. To escape from authorities, Moses fled to a local monastery. The monks took him in and he hid with them. While living with the monks in the monastery, he, converted to christianity, …show more content…
He then said, “Only slowly do the rays of the sun drive away the night and usher in a new day, and thus, only slowly does one become a perfect contemplative.” One week the monks were ordered to fast by the Abbot. Some monks would come to Moses and he would cook them a meal breaking the fasting rules. Other monks told the Abbot that Moses was doing this. The Abbot went to talk to Moses about it and told the other monks that Moses was in no trouble, because, he told them and Moses, “You did not keep a human commandment, but it was so that you might keep the divine commandment of hospitality.” Another time, a monk committed a sin, and all of the other monks were to attend a meeting to decide what the monk’s penance would be. Moses refused to attend. When he was again called to the meeting, Moses took a leaking jug of water, (it is sometimes told as being a leaky bag of sand) and put it on his shoulder so it would leak out behind him, into the meeting. The other monks asked him why he had the leaky jug, and he replied, “My sins run out behind me and I do not see them, but today I am coming to judge the errors of another.” After this the sin of the monk was forgotten. Moses was later ordained a