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Four Desert Fathers: Pambo, Evagrius, Macarius of Egypt, and Macarius of Alexandria: Coptic Texts Relating to the Lausiac History of Palladius is unavailable, but you can change that!

Pambo, Evagrius, Macarius of Egypt, and Macarius of Alexandria—the four fathers presented in this volume—were well known in Alexandria and lower Egypt some 1,600 years ago. Their lives, brought to fame by Palladius’ Lausiac History, provide valuable insight into the Egyptian monastic communities of the fourth century and into the saintly tradition of the Coptic Church. This volume offers the...

“And when I had finished two days,” he said, “and two nights, the demons became so demented that they changed themselves into a crowd of phantasms. Sometimes they took on the appearance of lions scratching my feet with their claws;84 sometimes [246] they took on the appearance of serpents entwining themselves around my feet. Finally, they took on the appearance of fiery flames in order to burn up everything inside the cell, even the mat I was standing on; they burned up everything except for the
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