The Lives of the Fathers of the Eastern Deserts

Rev. Challoner's wonderful collection of lives of the desert hermits is now completely retypeset!

“The Saints of the Desert!” what a subject to be brought before the minds of this worldly-wise and self-worshipping generation!—how can men and women who live but to indulge their tastes, and fancies, and gratify their passions, understand or appreciate the antiquated custom of crucifying the flesh, and macerating the body by vigils and fasts, and giving up all the fascinations of this world to devote the whole being, heart, and soul to God from whom it came?

The saints of the desert—the religious of the cloisters—all the monastic orders whether active or contemplative are the pride and glory of the Church—they are her richest treasures—her chosen children, who sit ever at her feet drinking in her divine precepts and literally putting them in practice; they are the blooming wreaths wherewith she crowns her beloved Spouse, because they are His faithful imitators. They practised, to the very letter, the spirit of self-denial which the world cannot understand, but which the Church of God has ever inculcated, and still does inculcate.

Format: Softcover | 5.5 x 8.5 inches
Pages: 405