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    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]

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    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]

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    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]

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    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]

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    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]

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    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.

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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]

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    ПАЛЛАДИЯ, ЕПИСКОПА ЕЛЕНОПОЛЬСКОГО, ЛАВСАИК

    ИЛИ ПОВЕСТВОВАНИЕ О ЖИЗНИ СВЯТЫХ И БЛАЖЕННЫХ ОТЦЕВ

    Письмо, писанное епископом Палладием правителю Лавсу.

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    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]

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    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.

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    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]

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    Monastery of Saint Macarius the Great – The Monastery of Saint Macarius The Great also known as Dayr Aba Maqār (Arabic: دير الأنبا مقار) is a Coptic Orthodox monastery located in Wadi El Natrun, Beheira Governorate, about 92 km (57 mi) north-west of Cairo, and off the highway between Cairo and Alexandria.

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    Антонин (Капустин) – Архимандри́т Антони́н (в миру Андрей Иванович Капу́стин; 12 [24] августа 1817, Батурино, Пермская губерния — 24 марта [5 апреля] 1894, Иерусалим) — священнослужитель Русской православной церкви, учёный-византинист, начальник Русской духовной миссии на Святой Земле (1865—1894)[1], магистр богословия.

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    John Moschus (Greek: Ἰωάννης Μόσχος, c. 550 – 619; name from the Ancient Greek: ὁ τοῦ Μόσχου, romanized: o tou Moschou, lit. ’son of Moschos’, was a Byzantine monk and ascetical writer.

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    Софроний Иерусалимский (греч. Σωφρόνιος Α΄ Ιεροσολύμων; около 560 года, Дамаск — 638 год) — иерусалимский патриарх. Почитается в православии в лике святителей, память совершается 11 (24) марта.

    Жизнеописание
    В молодости Софроний был учителем словесности («софистом»). Рано ушёл в монастырь — в лавру святого Феодосия, где познако…[Read more]

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    Лимонарь (Лимонарий; греч. Λειμωνάριον, буквально «лужок», от λειμών «луг, цветник», лат. Pratum spirituale, «Луг духовный», также именуется «Синайский патерик») — византийский сборник нравоучительных повествований о жизни христианских подвижников. Основным автором текстов Лимонария считается инок Иоанн Мосх (VII век).…[Read more]

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    Spiritual Meadow – The Spiritual Meadow is a 7th-century book by John Moschus. In Greek, it is titled Leimōn pneumatikos (also the Leimonarion, or the “New Paradise”) and in Latin, it is known as Pratum spirituale (“Spiritual Meadow”), occasionally abbreviated Prat. Spirit. John Moschus wrote the book during the 610s or 620s.

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    Фаранская лавра – Фара́нская ла́вра (ивр. ‏מנזר פרן‏‎) — бывший мужской монастырь Иерусалимской православной церкви, самый древний из сохранившихся в Палестине, основан преподобным Харитоном Исповедником в 330-х годах в пещере, в которую он был приведён разбойниками.

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    Pseudo-Macarius – Pseudo-Macarius (or Pseudo-Makarios) is the conventional designation of the anonymous author or authors of works falsely attributed to Macarius of Egypt.

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