The Desert Fathers: Translations from the Latin

by Waddell, Helen

• ISBN13: 9780472060085
• ISBN10: 0472060082
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1957-03-01
• Publisher: Univ of Michigan Pr

Summary

The words of the 4th-century monastics who founded the Desert Rule

Table of Contents

Introduction	1	(25)
The Life of St. Paul the First Hermit	26	(14)
St. Jerome
History of the Monks of Egypt	40	(18)
Translated from the Greek by Rufinus of Aquileia
The Sayings of the Fathers	58	(72)
Translated from the Greek by Pelagius the Deacon and John the Subdeacon
The Sayings of the Fathers	130	(17)
From the Greek by an unknown translator
The Sayings of the Fathers	147	(9)
Translated from the Greek by Paschasius the Deacon for the Abbot of Dumes
Of Accidie: of Mortification	156	(7)
By Cassian of Marseilles
Fragments From the ``Paradisus'' of Palladius	163	(3)
From the Greek by an unknown translator
The ``Pratum Spirituale'' of John Moschus	166	(7)
Translated from the Greek by Ambrose of Camaldoli
The Life of St. Pelagia The Harlot	173	(16)
By James the Deacon, translated from the Greek by Eustochius
The Life of St. Mary the Harlot	189	(14)
By St. Ephraem of Edessa: translator unknown
Notes	203