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Apophthegmata Patrum

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patristic literature

  • In patristic literature: Monastic literature

    …of Egyptian monasticism as the Apophthegmata Patrum (“Sayings of the Fathers”). Compiled toward the end of the 5th century but using much older material, it is a collection of pronouncements of the famous desert personalities and anecdotes about them. The existing text is in Greek, but it probably derives from…

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