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monastic superior and model of holiness in the austere world of desert monasticism
seeking counsel on the interior life
it reached Nicodemus of the Holy Mountain
people today who read them as the ancients did
Saint John the Little was a monk and hegumen of Scetis (Wadi Natrun) during the first great period of early Egyptian monasticism
The Book of the Elders Sayings of the Desert Fathers: The Systematic Collection Saint Demiana monastic superior and model of"Sugg. Donation" In the early part of the fourth century, a few Christians, mostly men and some women, began to withdraw from "the world" to retreat into the desert, there to practice their new religion more seriously. The person who aspired to "renounce the world" first had to find an "elder," a person who would accept him as a disciple and apprentice. To his elder (whom he would address as abbafather) the neophyte owed complete obedience; from his
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