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91Theodore of Egypt — is a 5th century Egyptian saint. He was the disciple of Saint Pachomius, whom he replaced as head of the Cenobitic community upon Pachomius departure. He was best known for his meekness and patience.Theodore of Egypt departed on 2… …
92Degrees of Eastern Orthodox monasticism — Part of a series on Eastern Christianity …
93Hermitage (religious retreat) — Although today s meaning is usually a place where a hermit lives in seclusion from the world, hermitage was more commonly used to mean a settlement where a person or a group of people lived religiously, in seclusion. Western Christian TraditionA… …
94Pachomius (disambiguation) — Pachomius may refer to:* Saint Pachomius (ca. 292 – 348), also known as Abba Pachomius and Pakhom, founder of Christian cenobitic monasticism * Pachomius the Serb (Пахомий Серб, also known as Pachomius Logothete), fifteenth century hagiographer… …
95Theodorus of Tabennese — Saint Theodorus of Tabennese {ca. 314 368), also known as Abba Theodorus and simply Theodore was the spiritual successor to Pachomius and played a crucial role in preventing the first Christian cenobitic monastic federation from collapsing after… …
96cenobitical — See cenobitic. * * * …
97Buddhism — Buddhist, n., adj. Buddhistic, Buddhistical, adj. Buddhistically, adv. /booh diz euhm, bood iz /, n. a religion, originated in India by Buddha (Gautama) and later spreading to China, Burma, Japan, Tibet, and parts of southeast Asia, holding that… …
98Byzantine Empire — the Eastern Roman Empire after the fall of the Western Empire in A.D. 476. Cap.: Constantinople. * * * Empire, southeastern and southern Europe and western Asia. It began as the city of Byzantium, which had grown from an ancient Greek colony… …
99desert fathers — monks, as Saint Anthony or Saint Pachomius, who lived as hermits in the deserts of Egypt and founded the first Christian monasteries. * * * ▪ Christian hermits early Christian hermits (hermit) whose practice of asceticism in the Egyptian… …
100Benedict of Nursia, Saint — born с 480, Nursia, Kingdom of the Lombards died с 547 Founder of the Benedictine monastery at Monte Cassino, Italy, and father of Western monasticism. Born into a prominent family at Nursia in central Italy, he rejected the immoral and… …
