Inquiry about the monks in Egypt /:
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Other Authors: Rufinus, of Aquileia, 345-410 (Translator), Cain, Andrew (Translator, Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Latin
Published: Washington, D.C. : The Catholic University of America Press, [2019]
Series:Fathers of the church ; v. 139.
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Online Access:DE-862
DE-863
Item Description:"From September 394 to early January 395, seven monks from Rufinus of Aquileia's monastery on the Mount of Olives made a pilgrimage to Egypt to visit locally renowned monks and monastic communities. Shortly after their return to Jerusalem, one of the party, whose identity remains a mystery, wrote an engaging account of this trip. Although he cast it in the form of a first-person travelogue, it reads more like a book of miracles that depicts the great fourth-century Egyptian monks as prophets and apostles similar to those in the Bible. This work was composed in Greek, yet it is best known today as Historia monachorum in Aegypto (Inquiry about the Monks in Egypt), the title of the Latin translation of this work made by Rufinus, the pilgrim-monks' abbot''--Jacket
Physical Description:1 online resource (xxx, 238 pages)
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages xi-xxx) and indexes.
ISBN:9780813232652
0813232651

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