The Vitae Patrum or Vitas Patrum (literally Lives of the Fathers) is a collection of hagiographical writings on the Desert Fathers and Desert Mothers of...

semplici e non licterati" (simple, uneducated men). His translation of the Vitae Patrum, soon transposed from the Pisan dialect into Florentine, was the collection...

The Sayings of the Desert Fathers (Latin: Apophthegmata Patrum Aegyptiorum; Greek: ἀποφθέγματα τῶν πατέρων, romanized: Apophthégmata tōn Patérōn) is the...

austere asceticism as a solitary hermit in the deserts of Dalga. The Vitae Patrum says, "He had lived at first in a remote part of the desert, practicing...

(c. 370) is a hagiography which can be found in Book 1 of Rosweyde's Vitae Patrum. The work is an extract from the work The Life of Abraham. The earliest...

Conferences. ISBN 080912694X. Matarazzo, Jon. Vitae Patrum: The Life Of Abba Antony from the Book of the Vitae Patrum. ISBN 0595290191. Mayers, Gregory. Listen...

era, traditionally called vitae ("life"). The lives of twelve female desert saints are described in Book I of Vitae Patrum (Lives of the Fathers). Christian...

Saint of the Day, September 2: Elpidius the Cappadocian at SaintPatrickDC.org Sant'Elpidio a Mare Vitae patrum Portals: Saints Biography Catholicism Italy...

(link) The legend of St. Macarius may be read in English translation at Vitae Patrum Archived 2011-05-18 at the Wayback Machine. Flammarion, Camille (1865)...

regarded as a Desert Father, and several of his apothegms appear in the Vitae Patrum (a collection of sayings from early Christian monks). Evagrius rigorously...