The Desert FathersHelen Waddell The words of the 4th-century monastics who founded the Desert Rule |
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 1 |
THE LIFE OF ST PAUL THE FIRST HERMIT | 26 |
HISTORY OF THE MONKS OF EGYPT | 40 |
THE SAYINGS OF THE FATHERS | 58 |
THE SAYINGS OF THE FATHERS | 130 |
THE SAYINGS OF THE FATHERS | 147 |
OF MORTIFICATION | 156 |
FRAGMENTS FROM THE PARADISUS OF PALLADIUS | 163 |
THE PRATUM SPIRITUALS OF JOHN MOSCHUS | 166 |
THE LIFE OF ST PELAGIA THE HARLOT | 173 |
THE LIFE OF ST MARY THE HARLOT | 189 |
NOTES | 203 |
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