Four Desert Fathers: Pambo, Evagrius, Macarius of Egypt & Macarius of Alexandria he became a hermit

he became a hermit

Macarius of Egypt

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Four Desert Fathers: Pambo, Evagrius, Macarius of Egypt & Macarius of Alexandria he became a hermit"Sugg. Donation" The four desert Fathers who gave their names to this volume Pambo, Evagrius, Macarius of Egypt, and Macarius of Alexandria were well known some 1600 years ago in Alexandria and the monastic communities of Lower Egypt. They were most famous, perhaps, because the monk (and later bishop) Palladius recounted their Lives preserved in the Coptic Palladiana in his Lausiac History. The introduction describes the relationships among Palladius