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The beginnings of monastic life in the Egyptian desert
Early witnesses to Christian ascetic and monastic life, from St Antony's call to the desert to the communal discipline and spiritual teaching of the Pachomian tradition.
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Open in Library filters →St Athanasius tells the life of St Antony the Great, tracing his call to ascetic life, struggles in the desert, teaching, miracles, and holy death. The work became one of Christianity’s most influential portraits of monastic discipleship.
A Sahidic Coptic monastic exhortation on vigilance, humility, self-control, brotherly peace, and perseverance, transmitted as a composite Pachomian work.
