Zosimus the Hermit was an ascetic who resided in the wilds of Cilicia and Palestine[1] in the 3rd century AD.

After being tortured, he was left miraculously unharmed, which led to the conversion of Zosimus' guard Athanasius, who accepted the Christianity and baptism.

Legendary accounts relate Zosimus traveled by camel, and later by wind, to a place called the "Abode of the Blessed".

The Abode was either a "paradisiacal realm" or a mountain hermitage far from human society.

[4][2] Saint Zosimus the Hermit and Saint Athanasius his disciple are commemorated on 4 January by the Eastern Orthodox and Byzantine Catholic Churches, while the Catholic Church commemorates them a day earlier on 3 January.