He was the great patriarch and lawgiver of the Old Testament who wrote the first five books of the Bible. He is not called Saint Moses when referred to scripturally, but only on September 4, his feast day. The life of Moses was divided into three periods of forty years. He was forty years in Egypt, a little child picked up near a river bank and educated and trained in the court of Pharaoh. He was then forty years in Madianite country, south of the Holy Land. And then he was forty years with the Hebrews in the desert on their way to the Promised Land. Moses died before the Israelites reached the Promised Land. He died on Mount Nebo at the age of one hundred and twenty. His sister Miriam is a great and noble woman of the Old Testament. His brother Aaron, whose feast day is July 1, was the first high priest of the Jews.
Moses, by Michelangelo, photo by Jörg Bittner Unna – Own work, CC BY 3.0, Link
