Four Egyptian deserts

Like many well -known creations of antiquity, the "Lavsaik" (420) Bishop Palladium has a very difficult story, as evidenced by the Coptic Fragments of the work proposed in the book of Four Egyptian Deserts. In addition to scientific value, these unique texts are of great interest with a cognitive and spiritual point of view, as it contains many details that have disappeared from the Lavsaika editorial office. First of all, this is information about the Monk Pamve Nitrian, the Monk of Macarius of the Egyptian (great), the Monk of Macarius of Alexandria and about Abba Evagria.
In the book proposed for the reader, fragments were first collected together, which for a long time have been scattered in various specialized publications and remained in this connection inaccessible. The book was prepared by Schiarchimandrite Gabriel (Bunge) and Hieromonk Adalber (de Vogue) in order to present to specialists who are monks, as well as all those who are interested in monastic life, portraits of ascetics of the Egyptian desert