Pachomius
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Pachomius reflected for a few minutes and then withdrew a little way from his companions.
From Saint Athanasius The Father of Orthodoxy by Forbes, F. A. (Frances Alice)
From the time of St. Pachomius, the cœnobitic life was adopted by most monks; but the Eastern monasteries, with the important exception of a vow of obedience, differed little from a collection of hermitages.
From History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 2 of 2) by Lecky, William Edward Hartpole
After some years, the two hermits went together to the desert of the Thebaid and began the work to which God had called Pachomius, for Palemon died soon after.
From Saint Athanasius The Father of Orthodoxy by Forbes, F. A. (Frances Alice)
Remoboth, rem′ō-both, n. a class of isolated hermit societies in Syria which would be bound by no rule, after the regulation of monasticism by Pachomius and Basil—like the Sarabaites in Egypt.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various
The first rules for a community of this type were drawn up by Pachomius who founded a coenobitic community at Tabenna in 320 A.D.
From Education in England in the Middle Ages Thesis Approved for the Degree of Doctor of Science in the University of London by Parry, Albert William
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