Four Desert Fathers: Pambo, Evagrius, Macarius of Egypt & Macarius of Alexandria the nuns whose spiritual director

the nuns whose spiritual director he became

he became a hermit

His humility and his concern for people made Sarov a center of pilgrimage until the events of the 1917 revolution

Macarius of Egypt

Valentine Zander has constructed his biography from the notebooks of people who knew St Seraphim

Four Desert Fathers: Pambo, Evagrius, Macarius of Egypt & Macarius of Alexandria the nuns whose spiritual director"Sugg. Donation" The four desert Fathers who gave their names to this volume Pambo, Evagrius, Macarius of Egypt, and Macarius of Alexandria were well known some 1600 years ago in Alexandria and the monastic communities of Lower Egypt. They were most famous, perhaps, because the monk (and later bishop) Palladius recounted their Lives preserved in the Coptic Palladiana in his Lausiac History. The introduction describes the relationships among Palladius