Lausiac History, Chapter 18: Macarius of Alexandria
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“But I did meet the other Macarius, the Alexandrian, a priest of the place called Cellia. […] This then was the method of his asceticism.”
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“But I did meet the other Macarius, the Alexandrian, a priest of the place called Cellia. […] This then was the method of his asceticism.”
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“I hesitate either to speak or write the many great and incredible events that happened in connection with those famous men, the two Macarii, lest I should incur the suspicion of being a liar…”
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“There was another of the old (monks) called Nathanael. I did not visit him during his lifetime, since he had fallen asleep fifteen years before my arrival. But when I met the men who lived with him and shared his life of asceticism, I made a point of inquiring about the virtues of this man.”
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“A youth named Macarius, when he was about eighteen years old, as he played with his comrades by the lake called Maria, being in charge of animals, unwittingly committed a murder.”
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“There were two brothers called Paesius and Isaias, sons of a Spanish merchant. On their father’s death they divided the real property which they got, also the personal property consisting of 5000 pieces of money and clothes and slaves.”
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“A man named Apollonius, a merchant, who had renounced the world and come to live on Mount Nitria, being unable owing to advanced years either to learn a craft or work as a scribe, had this occupation during his twenty years’ life on the mountain.”
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“In this mountain of Nitria there was a man called Benjamin who at the age of eighty years having reached the perfection of asceticism was counted worthy of the gift of healing…”
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“This Ammonius, Pambo’s disciple, with his three brothers and two sisters, having reached the perfection of the love of God, made their home in the desert…”
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“To this mountain also belonged the blessed Pambo, teacher of Dioscorus the bishop and Ammonius and Eusebius and Euthymius…”
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“(Arsisius) used to say that Amoun lived in this wise. When he was a young man of about twenty-two he was constrained by his uncle to marry a wife—he (himself) was an orphan.”