Tabenna is a Christian community founded in Upper Egypt around 320 by Saint Pachomius. It was the motherhouse of a federation of monasteries known as...

birthdate is unknown, as is her age at the time she joined the Tabenna Monastery in Egypt. Tabenna, or Tabennesi, was the original monastery established by...

The Life of Saint Pachomius states that the monks of the monastery of Tabenna built a church for the villagers of the nearby town of the same name even...

of the monk Pachomius, whose diocese boasted the celebrated convent of Tabenna. The town was given its present Arabic name of Denderah during the late...

Sidi Amar Kairouan (7) dont le borj Dahmani Sfax (12) dont les borjs El Tabenna et El Rassas Djerba (6) dont le borj El Kebir Tabarka (2) dont le borj...

sculptured, had executed some work "at his own expense;" ... Antoninus Pius Tabenna Cenobitic monasticism Pachomian monasteries Stephanus of Byzantium, Ethnica...

brought to Egypt by John, Duke of Barcaina, and stored by the monks of Tabenna, was carried with Cyrus and Theodore. The procession passed between Cleopatra's...

century. Pachomius established his first monastery between 318 and 323 at Tabenna, Egypt, and when it grew too large, his second one, Pbow, was built in...

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physical ability or skills to live a solitary existence in the desert . At Tabenna around 323, Saint Pachomius chose to mould his disciples into a more organized...