The Desert Fathers Tales During the beginning of the Christian era, the monastery of Sceta, Alexandria became the center of convergence of many people who, after renouncing the life they had, lived in the desert…
THE CITY ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE OCEAN A hermit from the monastery of Sceta approached Abbot Theodore: “I know exactly what the purpose of life is, he said. I know what God asks…
Apex and Crisis: Monasticism in a Fundamental Period of the Middle Ages At the end of the Carolingian Empire, with the rise of feudalism, as André Váuchez (1) points out, between the tenth and eleventh…