The old men of Nitria The Life of St. Ammon of Nitria
Editor's note
Palladius of Helenopolis lived among the monks of Egypt as a young man and wrote his Lausiac History about the year 420. At Nitria he met old men who had known Amoun, the first to live as a monk on that mountain.
Palladius, The Lausiac History VII.6, tr. W. K. Lowther Clarke (1918)
Another handRecorded by Palladius of Helenopolis. Verbatim, but not St. Ammon of Nitria's words.
[6] This Arsisius and many other old men with him whom we saw were contemporaries of the blessed Antony. Some among them, they told me, had also known Amoun of Nitria, whose soul Antony saw being taken up and conducted to heaven hy angels. Arsisius used to say that he also knew Pachomius of Tabennisi, a prophet and archimandrite over 3000 men, of whom I shall speak later.
Amoun of Nitria
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