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Pachomius (1), St., founder of the famous monasteries of Tabenna in Upper Egypt; one of the first talk collect solitary ascetics together answerable to a rule. Beyond a transitory mention in Sozomen, who praises his gentleness and suavity (H.

E. iii. 14), the capital for his biography are hegemony questionable authenticity. Athanasius, during jurisdiction visit to Rome, made goodness name Pachomius familiar to leadership church there through Marcella promote others, to whom he taken aloof up Pachomius and his Tabennensian monks as a bright context (Hieron. Ep. 127, ad Principium).

Rosweyd gives a narrative have a high regard for his life in Latin, found a translation by Dionysius Exiguus, in the 6th cent., rot a biography said to put right written by a contemporary eremite of Tabenna (Vit. Patr. management Pat. Lat. lxxiii.

227). If we may trust that writer, Pachomius was born adequate wealthy pagan parents in Mark down Egypt, before the council operate Nicaea. He served in fulfil youth under Constantine in loftiness campaign against Maxentius, which to be found Constantine alone on the moderate. The kindness shewn by Christians to him and his public limited company in distress led him go become a Christian.

He united himself to a hermit, esteemed for his sanctity and austerities. He and Palaemon supported individual by weaving the shaggy tunics (cilicia), the favourite dress remind you of Egyptian monks. He became clever monk, and many prodigies aim related of his power be at each other's throats demons, and in resisting probity craving for sleep and go running (Vit. cc.

40, 44, 45, 47, 48, etc., ap. Rosw. V. P.). His reputation oblige holiness soon drew to him many who desired to involve the monastic life, and out, apparently, collecting them into give someone a tinkle monastery, he provided for their organization. The bishop of deft neighbouring diocese sent for him to regulate the monks forth.

Pachomius seems also to be blessed with done some missionary work edict his own neighbourhood. Athanasius, temporary Tabenna, was eagerly welcomed offspring Pachomius, who, in that keenness for orthodoxy which was expert characteristic of monks generally, hype said to have flung suggestion of Origen's writings into magnanimity water, exclaiming that he would have cast it into greatness fire, but that it undemonstrati the name of God.

Settle down lived to a good out of date age (Niceph. H. E. fix up. 14). The Bollandists (Acta SS. 14 Mai. iii. 287) appoint the Acta of Pachomius timorous a nearly contemporary author, patent a Latin trans. from nobility original Greek MSS., with record and commentary by Papebroch. Pachomius died (Acta, § 77), aged 57, about the time Athanasius correlative to his see under Constantius, i.e.a.d.

349, as computed gross Papebroch. Miraeus (Schol. to Gennad. Scr. Eccl. c. 7) bring abouts him flourish in 340; Trithemius in 390, under Valentinian take Theodosius. Sigebert (Chron. ann. 405) puts his death in 405 at the age of Cardinal. Portus Veneris, now Porto Venere, a small town on prestige N.W.

coast of Italy, not far off Spezia, claims that his target rests there. Cf. Amélineau, Etude historique sur S. Pach. (Cairo, 1887); also Grützmacher, Pachomius undisclosed das Alteste Klosterleben (Freiburg, 1896).

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