Search results
15 January. Saint Isidore of Scetes (died c. 390) was a 4th-century A.D. Egyptian Christian priest and desert ascetic. Isidore was one of the Desert Fathers and was a companion of Macarius the Great. John Cassian lists him as the leader of one of the four monastic communities of Scetes. [1] The Roman Martyrology describes the blessed Isidore as ...
Coptic icon of Anthony the Great. 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.
Aug 23, 2016 · As the early Christian church began to flourish under Constantine’s rule in the fourth century Greco-Roman world, so too did the ascetic movement. The early Christian hermits, ascetics and monks known as the “Desert Fathers” who lived mainly in the Scetes desert of Egypt in 3 CE were a major influence on the development of Christianity.
- Martinif
Shabsheer (Shanshour), Roman Egypt: Died: 391 Scetes, Roman Egypt: Venerated in: Eastern Orthodox Church Oriental Orthodox Churches Catholic Church: Major shrine: Monastery of Saint Macarius the Great, Scetes, Egypt: Feast: 15 January (West, Roman Catholic) 19 January (Eastern Orthodox) 27 Paremhat (5 April) (Oriental Orthodox)
source of map: Monks and Nuns of the Egyptian Desert. chemical symbol for sodium, Na, is an abbreviation of that element's Latin name natrium, which was derived from natron. In Coptic, the region was known as 'Shee-Hyt', meaning 'the balance of the hearts' or 'the measure of the hearts'. In Greek, it is known as Scetes, which means 'the ascetics'.
DESERT FATHERS The hermits and cenobites of Egypt, c. 250 to 500, who through their way of life and spiritual teachings developed the institution of monasticism. They made three Egyptian desert areas famous: the thebaid, the Nitrian Desert or Valley (also called Scete), and Middle Egypt, between the Nile and the Red Sea, where anthony of egypt directed colonies of hermits.
People also ask
Who are the most famous saints in Egypt?
What was the hermitic life like in ancient Egypt?
Why is wadi called Scetis?
Why is Wadi Natrun called Scetis?
Mar 25, 2016 · March 25, 2016. 3562. 0. In 407, a tribe of barbarian raiders known as Mazices came sweeping off the Libyan desert and devastated one of the first great centers of Christian monasticism, the settlement of Scetis. Scetis was located in a remote desert valley west of the Nile and had been founded around 330 by one of the pioneers of the monastic ...
