Thaïs (saint)

Saint

Thaïs
St. Thais by Jusepe de Ribera
(alternately, of St. Mary Magdalen).
Bornc. 4th century
Diedc. 4th century
Venerated inRoman Catholicism,
Eastern Orthodox Church
FeastOctober 8

St. Thaïs, of fourth-century Roman Alexandria and of the Egyptian desert, was a repentant courtesan.

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