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The Lives of the Desert Fathers: The Historia Monachorum in Aegypto (Cistercian Studies No. 34)

by Norman Russell · 1980

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Eyewitness accounts of the lives and teachings of the fourth-century Desert Fathers from the Historiamonachorum in Aegypto.

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adult
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short · 192 pages

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