Door of Prophecies – The Door of Prophecies or Gate of Prophecies is a large door inside the Syrian Monastery, of Wadi El Natrun (Natron Valley) in Egypt, that features symbolic diagrams depicting the past and the future of the Christian faith through the eyes of Christian monks of the tenth century. Several centuries ago, that location was used…[Read more]

The Monastery of Saint Mary El-Sourian is a Coptic Orthodox monastery located in Wadi El Natrun in the Nitrian Desert, Beheira Governorate, Egypt. It is located about 500 meters northwest of the Monastery of Saint Pishoy.

The monastery is dedicated to the Virgin Mary and carries her name. In scholarly references from the nineteenth century it is…[Read more]

Paromeos Monastery – The Paromeos Monastery (Coptic: ⲡⲁⲣⲟⲙⲉⲟⲥ), also known as Baramos Monastery (Arabic: البراموس), is a Coptic Orthodox monastery located in Wadi El Natrun in the Nitrian Desert, Beheira Governorate, Egypt. It is the most northern among the four current monasteries of Scetis, situated around 9 km northeast of the Monastery of Sai…[Read more]

СВ. МАРК ЕФЕСКИ – Св. Марк изповедник, митрополит Ефески
Святой Марк Евгеник, митрополит Ефесский
St. Marcus Eugenicus, Archbishop of Ephesus (St. Mark of Ephesus)

1392 – 1444 година

Чества се на 19 януари заедно със св. Макарий Велики

Св. Марк изповедник, митрополит Ефески
Святой Марк Евгеник, митрополит Ефесский
St. Marcus Eugenicus, Archbish…[Read more]

Abba Isaiah of Gaza / Isaiah of Scetes desert – Isaiah of Gaza (? – 11 August 491), also known as Isaias or Isaiah the Solitary, Abba Isaiah, or possibly also Isaiah of Scetis, was a Christian ascetic and monastic writer known from the Sayings of the Desert Fathers[1] and various Palestinian Monophysite sources.[2][3] He is canonized as a saint b…[Read more]

History of the text
The Desert Fathers spoke Coptic, a language related to ancient Egyptian. The sayings were originally passed on orally in Coptic, but the original written version was Greek.[9] The earliest written record of the sayings appears to be from the end of the 4th century AD. Two versions from the 5th century, the Collectio Monastica,…[Read more]

The Sayings of the Desert Fathers (Latin: Apophthegmata Patrum Aegyptiorum; Greek: ἀποφθέγματα τῶν πατέρων[1])[2] is the name given to various textual collections consisting of stories and sayings attributed to the Desert Fathers and Desert Mothers from approximately the 5th century AD.[3][4]

The collections consist of wisdom stories describ…[Read more]

Five vignettes of Longinus are included in the Greek Sayings of the Desert Fathers. The third describes how a woman suffering from breast cancer was cured after an encounter with Longinus:

A woman had an illness they call cancer of the breast; she had heard of Abba Longinus and wanted to meet him. Now he lived at the ninth milestone from…[Read more]

Lucius the Ascetic was a 5th-century Syrian Christian abbot at Enaton. He was one of the Desert Fathers. He was a companion of Longinus

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Theodore of Pherme was an Egyptian Christian monk who lived in the in the desert of Scetes in Lower Egypt during the 4th century.[1] He was one of the Desert Fathers.[2]

Theodore was a monk at Scetis and may have been trained by Macarius the Great and Pambo. Once he was deaconized but refused the position out of humility, and wanted to live in…[Read more]

Pherme – Pherme was the location of a community of ascetic monks in the Nile Delta in Egypt[1][2] which grew after the 4th century CE as a satellite community of the better known community of Kellia (‘the cells’).

According to the Yale Monastic Archaeology Project,[3] the site of the monastic remains at Pherme, located 11 kilometers southeast of…[Read more]

Nitria – Nitria is one of the earliest Christian monastic sites in Egypt.[1] It was the earliest of the three major centers of Christian monastic activity in the Nitrian Desert, the other two being Kellia and Scetis.[1]

Nitria was founded in AD 330 by Ammon and quickly attracted thousands of monks through the remainder of the 4th century.[1] By…[Read more]

Kellia (“the Cells”), referred to as “the innermost desert”, was a 4th-century Egyptian Christian monastic community spread out over many square kilometers in the Nitrian Desert. It was one of three centers of monastic activity in the region, along with Nitria and Scetis (Wadi El Natrun). It is called al-Muna in Arabic and was inhabited until the…[Read more]

Saint John the Dwarf (Greek: Ἰωάννης Κολοβός; Arabic: ابو يحنّس القصير (Abū) Yuḥannis al-Qaṣīr c. 339 – c. 405), also called Saint John Colobus, Saint John Kolobos or Abba John the Dwarf,[2] was a Coptic Desert Father of the early Christian church.

John the Dwarf is best known for his obedience. The most famous story about his obedience is…[Read more]

The Monastery of Saint Pishoy (also spelled Bishoy, Pshoi, or Bishoi[1]) in Wadi El Natrun, Beheira Governorate, Egypt, is the most famous monastery of the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria named after Pishoy. It is the easternmost of the four current monasteries of Wadi el Natrun.

Monastery of Saint Pishoy -…

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Saint Pishoy (Coptic: Ⲁⲃⲃⲁ Ⲡⲓϣⲱⲱⲓ Abba Pišoi; and Greek: Ὅσιος Παΐσιος ὁ Μέγας; 320 – 417 AD), known in the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria as the Star of the Desert and the Beloved of our Good Savior, was a Coptic Desert Father. He is said to have seen Jesus, and been bodily preserved to the present day via incorruptibility at the Monastery…[Read more]

ПАЛЛАДИЯ, ЕПИСКОПА ЕЛЕНОПОЛЬСКОГО, ЛАВСАИК

ИЛИ ПОВЕСТВОВАНИЕ О ЖИЗНИ СВЯТЫХ И БЛАЖЕННЫХ ОТЦЕВ

Письмо, писанное епископом Палладием правителю Лавсу.

Patrologia Graeca (Греческая патрология) — отредактированное собрание трудов Отцов Церкви и различных светских авторов, написанных на греческом койне и византийском (среднегреческом) языке. Состоит из 161-го тома, напечатанных в 1857 — 1866 годах в Католической типографии Миня. Включает восточных Отцов и тех западных авторов, которые…[Read more]

Серапио́н Тмуи́тский (Серапион Исповедник, Серапион Схоластик[1], греч. Α΄ Σεραπίων Θμούεως[2]; начало IV века — после 362 года) — святой, исповедник. В начале жизни монах, затем епископ. Сподвижник Афанасия Великого, участник Сардикийского собора. Автор рукописей о литургике и церковной жизни.

Дни памяти[3][4]:

в католической…[Read more]

Макарий Александрийский – Мака́рий Александри́йский (греч. Μακάριος Αλεξανδρέας) или Мака́рий Городско́й (греч. Μακάριος Πολετικός; ~ 295 — ~ 395) — христианский святой аскет, писатель, монах и священник. Прославлен в лике преподобных, почитается в Православной, Католической и Коптской церквях.

Макарий родился в Александрии и был язычником, о…[Read more]