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Excerpt from Fifty Spiritual Homilies of St. Macarius the Egyptian
Palladins, Bishop of helenopolis, friend of St. Chrysostom, and historian of the religious life of the wilderness, begins his account of the two by saying that he hesitates to relate what he has to say of them, lest he should be thought a liar, so great and wonderful was their history. Palladins was not personally acquainted with the Egyptian. He says that he knew the Alexandrian, but that the other died a year before his own entrance into the N itrian desert, which was about the year 390. But he was familiar with the locality, and with the people who knew the great ascetic.
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