Syncletica (Virgin, or Amma, Mother; 5th cent. CE?) is the most prolifically preserved of the three so-called desert mothers (Sarah, Syncletica, and Theodora), whose sayings are transmitted in various collections of Apophthegmata Patrum (Sayings of the Desert Fathers). Syncletica was a learned ascetic in the tradition of Evagrius of Pontus, whose teachings detail her approach to demons, asceticism, gender, and the travails of embodiment.