Paradise of the Fathers

by Palladius Bishop of Helenopolis, Ernest A. Wallis Budge (Translator), Allan Armstrong (Editor)

Overview

An extraordinary collection of sayings from the Anchorites, Recluses, Monks, Cenobites and Ascetic Fathers of the deserts of Egypt between A.D. 250 and A.D. 400, These sayings were translated, out of the Syriac by Ernest A.Wallis Budge (1857 – 1934).

Product Details

BN ID:	2940150185784
Publisher:	Imagier Publishing
Publication date:	06/01/2012
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	258
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

Palladius of Galatia was bishop of Helenopolis in Bithynia, and a devoted disciple of Saint John Chrysostom. He is best remembered for his work, the Lausiac History, from which these sayings derive.

Sir Ernest Alfred Wallis Budge (trans.) an English Egyptologist, who was for many years the keeper of the Egyptian Dept. of the British Museum and published numerous works on the ancient Near East.