The Northern Theba'id: Monastic Saints of the Russian North by Seraphim Rose

The Northern Theba'id: Monastic Saints of the Russian North

Seraphim Rose

308 pages first pub 1975 (editions)

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The Egyptian Thebaid was the place of ascetic struggle for the first among monastic Fathers, St. Anthony the Great, along with thousands of monks and nuns who followed. The Northern Thebaid--the Russian "desert" of the forested, marshy North--offe...

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