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Nitriary
Nitriary Ni"tri*a*ry, n. [See Niter.] An artificial bed of animal matter for the manufacture of niter by nitrification. See Nitrification, 2.

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- Nitria could refer to: Nitra, a city in western Slovakia Nitria (monastic site), abandoned site of early Christian monastic activity Nitrian Desert, region...
- Nitria (also called the Mountain of Nitria or Petoou Mpihosm in Gr**** and Latin sources) is one of the earliest Christian monastic sites in Egypt and is...
- Or of Nitria (also Hor or Horus) was an Egyptian Orthodox Christian ascetic who lived around the 4th century AD in Egypt in Dalga, Nitria (Lower Egypt)...
- centers are Nitria and Kellia. Scetis, now called Wadi El Natrun, is best known today because its ancient monasteries remain in use, unlike Nitria and Kellia...
- ascetic who lived in a cave. His cell was 40 stadia from the main church in Nitria and 12 stadia away from the main water supply. He is canonized as a saint...
- Benjamin of Nitria is a 5th-century ascetic hermit who was martyred in 424 AD under the order of the Persian King, Varanes V. He is considered to be one...
- Serapion of Nitria, (Gr****: Σεραπίων, romanized: Serapíon; Russian: Серапион) Serapion of Thmuis, also spelled Sarapion, or Serapion the Scholastic was...
- Cronius of Nitria (c. 285 – c. 386) was an Egyptian Christian monk who lived in Nitria, Lower Egypt. He was one of the Desert Fathers. Cronius was born...
- Pambo of Nitria (died c. 390) was a Coptic Desert Father of the fourth century and disciple of Anthony the Great. His feast day is July 18 among the Oriental...
- for 18 years, when at her wish, they parted, and he retired to Scetis and Nitria, to the south of Lake Mareotis, where he lived 22 years, visiting his sister-wife...