Venerable Paul the Simple

Life

Until his sixtieth year he lived in the world as a married man. Having caught his wife in sin, he left everything, went into the desert to Saint Anthony, and received the monastic tonsure from him. And though he was simple and unlettered, he attained such spiritual perfection that he could see the soul of every man as ordinary people see each other's bodies. And he was a great wonder-worker, surpassing even Saint Anthony in some instances. He reposed in deep old age in the year 340 and was translated into the angelic joy.