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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.

Alexandria. And it so happened that the brotherhood was observing the forty days for the one and the third day of the other.208 Cronius learned this and was surprised; he took the Gospel and placed it in the midst of the brethren and told what had happened: “I was the interpreter in these conversations, since the Blessed Antony knew no Greek.209 I knew both languages and I did the translation, speaking to those two in Greek and to Antony in the Egyptian tongue.”210 16. Then Cronius told this also:
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