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it reached Nicodemus of the Holy Mountain
monastic superior and model of holiness in the austere world of desert monasticism
She begins with May Magdalene
seeking counsel on the interior life
potentials
The Book of the Elders Sayings of the Desert Fathers: The Systematic Collection Saint Demiana it reached Nicodemus of the"Sugg. Donation" In the early part of the fourth century, a few Christians, mostly men and some women, began to withdraw from "the world" to retreat into the desert, there to practice their new religion more seriously. The person who aspired to "renounce the world" first had to find an "elder," a person who would accept him as a disciple and apprentice. To his elder (whom he would address as abbafather) the neophyte owed complete obedience; from his
