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Early Christian hermits and ascetics
- The Desert Fathers were early Christian hermits and ascetics, who lived primarily in the Scetes desert of the Roman province of Egypt, beginning around the third century AD. The Apophthegmata Patrum is a collection of the wisdom of some of the early desert monks and nuns, in print as Sayings of the Desert Fathers.
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The Desert Fathers were early Christian hermits and ascetics, who lived primarily in the Scetes desert of the Roman province of Egypt, beginning around the third century AD. The Apophthegmata Patrum is a collection of the wisdom of some of the early desert monks and nuns, in print as Sayings of the Desert Fathers.
Learn about the origins, practices and wisdom of the Desert Fathers, who lived as hermits or in communities in the Egyptian desert from the 3rd to the 5th century AD. Discover how they influenced monasticism, Christianity and the world with their asceticism and love.
Desert Fathers, early Christian hermits whose practice of asceticism in the Egyptian desert, beginning in the 3rd century, formed the basis of Christian monasticism. Major figures include St. Anthony of Egypt, St. Paul of Thebes, and St. Pachomius of the Thebaid.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Learn from the timeless spiritual wisdom of the early Christian monks who lived in the desert land of the Middle East. Read their sayings and stories on topics such as humility, obedience, silence, and union with God.
Learn about the history, meaning and practice of desert monasticism, the Christian movement of withdrawal from the world to seek God in the 4th Century. Explore the stories, sayings and wisdom of the Desert Fathers and Mothers, and their influence on Celtic spirituality.
The Sayings of the Desert Fathers (Latin: Apophthegmata Patrum Aegyptiorum; Greek: ἀποφθέγματα τῶν πατέρων, romanized: Apophthégmata tōn Patérōn) is the name given to various textual collections consisting of stories and sayings attributed to the Desert Fathers from approximately the 5th century AD.
The Desert Fathers were the earliest Christian monks. They are the foundation stone of a movement that so developed over the centuries that it eventually wholly took over the Western Church and almost completely that of the East.
