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CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: St. Pachomius
Died about 346. The main facts of his life will be found in MONASTICISM (Section II: Eastern Monasticism before Chalcedon). Having spent some time with Palemon, he went to a deserted village named Tabennisi, not necessarily with the intention of remaining there permanently. [eng] |
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Biography: Pachomius, founder of community monasticism (14 May 346)
Pachomius was born in Egypt around 290, and is said to have served as a soldier, and to have become a Christian shortly after completing his military service. In about 320 he went to live as a hermit at Tabennisi, on the Nile in Upper (Southern) Egypt, in the district known as the Thebaid (from Thebes). Several other hermits lived near him, and as the settlement grew Pachomius gradually organized them into a religious community. [eng] |
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St. Pachomius
Though St. Antony be justly esteemed the institutor of the cenobitic life, or that of religious persons living in community under a certain rule, St. Pachomius was the first who drew up a monastic rule in writing. He was born in Upper Thebais about the year 292, of idolatrous parents, and was educated in their blind superstition, and in the study of the Egyptian sciences. [eng] |
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CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Eastern Monasticism Before Chalcedon
Egypt was the Motherland of Christian monasticism. It sprang into existence there at the beginning of the fourth century and in a very few years spread over the whole Christian world. The rapidity of the movement was only equalled by the durability of its results. Within the lifetime of St. Anthony the religious state had become what it has been ever since, one of the characteristics of the Catholic Church, with its ideals, and what may be termed the groundwork of its organization, determined. [eng] |
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Patron Saints Index: Pachomius
Memorial 15 May Profile Soldier. Convert in 313. Spiritual student of Saint Palaemon. Hermit from 316. During a retreat into the deep desert, he received a vision telling him to build a monastery on the spot and leave the life of a hermit for that of a monk. He did in 320, and devised a Rule that let fellow hermits ease from solitary to communal living. Abbot. His first house expanded to several monasteries and convents by the time of his death. Spiritual teacher of Saint Abraham the Poor. [eng] |
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