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Palladius: The Lausiac History is unavailable, but you can change that!

Comprised of biographical sketches of early monastics, Palladius has written an important collection on sixty holy men and women whom he had personally met. The work, dating from around AD 420, is dedicated to Lausus, the royal chamberlain at the court of Emperor Theodosius II.

of travel gladly in order to meet a man full of the love of God and to gain what I lacked. 6. For if Paul, so much my superior in way of life and in knowledge, in conscience and faith, made a journey from Tarsus to Judea to meet with Peter, James, and John—if he boasted of this, putting it on a pedestal, as it were, saying: I went to Jerusalem to see Peter,22 it was in order to relate his own trials as an incentive to those who lived in self-satisfaction and idleness. He was not satisfied merely
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