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When Christians first began living as monks in the Egyptian desert at the beginning of the fourth century, they had few books and almost no learning. As they gained experience, they concentrated that experience in the form of an oral tradition of tales and sayings (apophthegmata). Apart from the Scriptures (also learned by heart) this was the only training manual they had. Consequently, when the...

still to be observed in the young merchants who people the streets of Cairo today: their politeness, dynamism, and care-free nature, but also their audacity and even their calculating. Converted and baptized c. 330, Macarius became a monk at Nitria, and subsequently the priest at The Cells where he died 393/394 approaching 100. There is much confusion between the two persons of this name. Macarius of Alexandria 1 Abba Macarius the citizen once went to cut palm-fronds, his brothers with him. On the
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