| Lives of the Fathers of the Desert Contributor(s): Hahn-Hahn, Countess (Author), Dalgairns, J. B. (Translator) |
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ISBN: 1432625780 ISBN-13: 9781432625788 Publisher: Kessinger Publishing OUR PRICE: $58.85 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: September 2004 Annotation: 1867. The novelist, Countess Hahn-Hahn, was converted to the Catholic Church at a late age. Following her conversion she lived a devout and solitary life in a convent at Mayence and wrote a series of books on the History of the Church. Contents: Christianity in Freedom; Christian Worship; Feasts and Fasts; The Bosphorus and the Nile; The Anchorites; The Desert; Paul of Thebes; St. Antony; St. Hilarion; Paul the Simple; Ammon, Abbot of Nitria; St. Pachomius, Abbot of Tabenna; Serapion the Sindonite; St. Arsenius; The Blessed Moses; Brother Valens, Brother Ero and Brother Ptolemy; St. Ephrem the Syrian; St. Macrina; The Blessed Marana and the Blessed Cyra; St. Thais; St. Pelagia; St. Simeon Stylites; St. Nilus; St. John Climacus; The Daughters of the Gracchi; St. Marcella; The Blessed Fabiola; The Blessed Paula; and The Two Melanias. |
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| BISAC Categories: - Fiction |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Physical Information: 1.5" H x 6" W x 9" (2.33 lbs) 608 pages |
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