Robert Meyer

The most important document of early monasticism, written in 357, this is a biography of the recognized founder and father of monasticism.

Palladius has written an important history of early monasticism in Egypt with these biographic sketches or notes on some sixty holy men and women he had met or heard of. The work, dating from 419 or 420, is dedicated to Lausus, the royal chamberlain at the court of Emperor Theodosius II.