Lausiac History, Chapter 28: A Virgin Who Fell
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“Again, I knew a virgin in Jerusalem who wore sackcloth for six years and shut herself up in a cell, taking none of the things that bestow pleasure.”
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“Again, I knew a virgin in Jerusalem who wore sackcloth for six years and shut herself up in a cell, taking none of the things that bestow pleasure.”
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“Again another monk, Ptolemy by name, lived a life difficult, even impossible, to describe.”
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“There was a certain Heron, a neighbour of mine, an Alexandrian by race, an excellent young man, of good natural ability and pure in his life.”
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“There was a man named Valens, a Palestinian by race, but Corinthian in his character—for St. Paul attributed the vice of presumption to the Corinthians.”
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“One Stephen, a Libyan by race, dwelt on the shores of Marmarica and the Mareotis for sixty years.”
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“There dwelt in Scete a man named Pachon, who had reached his sixtieth year or thereabouts.”
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“A certain Paul, a rustic peasant, exceedingly guileless and simple, was wedded to a most beautiful woman of depraved character, who for a very long while concealed her sins from him.”
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“So a number of brethren were assembled, one with this need, another with that. Among them was a certain Eulogius, a monk of Alexandria, and another man, a cripple, who had come for the following reason.”
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“There is a mountain in Egypt called Pherme, which borders on the great desert of Scete. On this mountain dwell some 500 men, devotees of asceticism. One of them, a man named Paul, had this manner of life…”
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“A certain Moses—this was his name—an Ethiopian by race and black, was house-servant to a government official. His own master drove him out because of his immorality and brigandage.”