Finally, he withdrew to the top of a cliff near Lycopolis, Egypt, where he could avoid all human contact.
John never ate until sunset and lived on a diet of dried fruit and vegetables for fifty years.
[1] He was believed to possess the spiritual gift of prophecy and often predicting the future and knowing the details of persons he had never met.
[citation needed] According to Butler, John prayed incessantly, and he spent the last three days of his life without food or drink or any interactions but prayer.
[citation needed] His feast day is March 27 in the Western churches and June 12 in Eastern Orthodoxy.