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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...

metanoia159 while returning from them under the earth until he came to his church.160 And in this way he would visit them twice a day, praying with them and petitioning God to heal them. 161 9 After twenty days he opened the door of the young man’s cell, brought him out, and undid his fetters because in truth the demon had left him, and the man of God spoke to the young man’s mother,162 “How many loaves of bread would you have your
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