Desert Fathers
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The Desert Fathers were early Christian hermits and ascetics, who lived primarily in the Wadi El Natrun, then known as Skete, in Roman Egypt, beginning around the third century. The Sayings of the Des
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"Saint Macarius and a Cherub" from Saint Catherine's Monastery, Sinai, Egypt
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Icon of Arsenius the Great, notable Desert Father
The Sayings of the Desert Fathers is the name given to various textual collections consisting of stories and sayings attributed to the Desert Fathers of Egypt from approximately the 5th century AD.
Desert Fathers
…Christian hermits and ascetics, who lived primarily in the Wadi El Natrun, then known as Skete, in Roman Egypt, beginning around the third century. The Sayings of the Desert Fathers is a collection of sayings and other texts attributed to desert monks and nuns from this era. The first Desert Father was Paul of Thebes. The most…
Sogdian Christian copy of the text written in Syriac