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The Church Fathers · c. 615–619
The Spiritual Meadow
Pratum Spirituale
John Moschus · c. 550–619
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What it is
Over two hundred short anecdotes collected on a lifetime of travel between the monasteries of Palestine, Sinai, and Egypt, gathered as the Persian invasion destroyed them.
Why it lasted
The last great collection of desert stories, written down precisely because the world that produced them was ending.
Where to read it
Public domain and free to read in full, though not held here. The archives below have it.
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