Palladius has written an important history of early monasticism in Egypt with these biographic sketches or notes on some sixty holy men and women he had met or

Probably written in 406-408, this dialogue between an unidentified bishop and Theodore, a deacon of the church of Rome, has as its aim to point out Chrysostom a

"The four desert Fathers who give their names to this volume - Pambo, Evagrius, Macarius of Egypt, and Macarius of Alexandria - were well known some 1600 years