 St. Apollo was the one who went to St. Ammonius and was one of the witnesses who saw the holy woman that "stood in the middle of the fire but did not burn".The author of the "Historia Monachorum", the archdeacon Timothy of Alexandria (around 400), whose Latin translation of Rufinus was equally published by Rosweyde as book II of the Vitae Patrum, recounts the visit he made with his companions to Apollo.According to his recollections the saint lived in the Tebaide, in the region of Hermopolis (today Asmunayn), not far from the sanctuary of Dayr Al-Muharrag.