It is traditional to start the history of Christian asceticism with the flight of Saint Antony to the desert followed by the organization of monasteries in Egypt and Syria and a discussion of the great theoretical system constructed by Jerome, Ambrose, Augustine, and the other promoters of virginity from the fourth and fifth centuries.
An edition of New Song Celibate Women in the First Three Christian Centuries
(1983)
New Song Celibate Women in the First Three Christian Centuries
by Jo Ann McNamara
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