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VII.
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the monk, a
man endowed with apostolic grace both in teaching and in performing
miracles, and founder of the Egyptian monasteries, wrote an Order of
discipline suited to both classes of monks, which he received by
angelic dictation. He wrote letters also to the associated bishops of
his district, in an alphabet concealed by mystic sacraments so as to
surpass customary human knowledge and only manifest to those of special
grace or desert, that is To the Abbot Cornelius one, To the
Abbot Syrus one, and one To the heads of all monasteries
exhorting that, gathered together to one very ancient monastery which
is called in the Egyptian language Bau, they should celebrate the day
of the Passover together as by everlasting law. He urged likewise in
another letter that on the day of remission, which is celebrated in the
month of August, the chief bishops should be gathered together to one
place, and wrote one other letter to the brethren who had been sent to
work outside the monasteries.E.C.F. INDEX & SEARCH
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