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Sayings of the Desert Fathers, The
Benedita Ward, SLG

Number of quotes: 6


Book ID: 267 Page: 42

Section: 2E2

Abba Bessarion said, ‘For fourteen days and nights, I have stood upright in the midst of thorn bushes, without sleeping.’

Quote ID: 6738

Time Periods: 4


Book ID: 267 Page: 44

Section: 2E2

Someone questioned Abba Biare in these words, ‘What shall I do to be saved?’ He replied, ‘Go reduce your appetite and your manual work, dwell without care in your cell and you will be saved.’

Quote ID: 6739

Time Periods: 4


Book ID: 267 Page: 62

Section: 2E2

It was said of Abba Helladius that he spent twenty years in the Cells, without ever raising his eyes to see the roof of the church.

Quote ID: 6740

Time Periods: 4


Book ID: 267 Page: 116

Section: 2E2

Carion was a married man, an Egyptian, with a wife and two children. He left his family in order to become a monk in Scetis.

Quote ID: 6741

Time Periods: 4


Book ID: 267 Page: 197

Section: 2E2

He also said, ‘The monk should wear a garment of such a kind that he could throw it out of his cell and no-one would steal it from him for three days.’

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He was greater than many others in that if he was asked to interpret part of the Scriptures or a spiritual saying, he would not reply immediately, but he would say he did not know that saying. If he was asked again, he would say no more.

Quote ID: 6742

Time Periods: 4


Book ID: 267 Page: 205

Section: 2E2

It was said of Abba Paul that he spent the whole of Lent eating only one measure of lentils, drinking one small jug of water, and working at one single basket, weaving it and unweaving it, living alone until the feast.

Quote ID: 6743

Time Periods: 34



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