Four Desert Fathers: Pambo, Evagrius, Macarius of Egypt & Macarius of Alexandria The life of the starets

The life of the starets is told with a touching simplicity that allows his life and work to be their own witness

Working with the Conferences of St John Cassian

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

the nuns whose spiritual director he became

Macarius of Egypt

Four Desert Fathers: Pambo, Evagrius, Macarius of Egypt & Macarius of Alexandria The life of the starets"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