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The Paradise of the Holy Fathers is a compilation of the histories of the Desert Fathers—the Anchorites, recluses, monks, Coenobites, and ascetics of the early Church— as translated by E. A. Wallis Budge from the original Syriac manuscripts. It includes an introduction to Palladius and to Christian monasticism in Egypt, an overview of the life of St. Anthony, and “The History of the Monks” by...

AND we also saw in Thebaïs a certain high mountain which lay by the river, and it was an exceedingly terrible mountain with high barren peaks, and in the caves thereof there dwelt many monks; and these men had as Abbâ one Pithyrion, who was a disciple of the holy man Anthony. He was the third who had received that place from Anthony, and he used to perform many mighty deeds, and to carry on the persecution of devils openly; and since he was the man who had
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