Military and religious life in the Middle Ages and at the period of the Renaissance (1870)
Jacob, P. L., 1806-1884 · London : Bickers & Son · leaf 386
defatigable promoter of monastic institutions in Western Europe. At the same period, St. Pachomius, who had founded in the Thebais the THE RELIGIOUS ORDERS. 301 monastery of Tabenna?, compiled the first complete regulations that have beenhanded down to us for the use of the cenobites, in which… … Fig. 236*.—St. Anthony, a statuette in stone of the Third Century, belonging to a gentleman ofCambiai. This engraving, never before published, shows us what the holy doctors thoughtof the great anchorite of Egypt. He is treading underfoot the devil, who is representedby the unclean animal in the…
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