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Mark The Obedient - St Shenouda Monastery Pimonakhos Article

They used to say that Abba Sylvanus had in Scete a disciple whose name was Mark, and that he possessed to a great degree the faculty of obedience, he was a scribe, and the old man loved him greatly for his obedience. Sylvanus had eleven other disciples, and they were vexed because they saw that …

Holy Fools As Imitators Of Christ - St Shenouda Monastery Pimonakhos Articles

This vocation of folly for Christ's sake is not limited only to Russia, but is also a characteristic of Greek and Syriac Christianity from the fourth century onwards. Holy fools are to be found likewise in the Christian West. One of the earliest examples in Eastern Christendom—perhaps the earliest of all—is not a man but …

Fr Abd el Masih el Makary- St Shenouda Monastery Pimonakhos Articles

“If virtue is revealed it is snatched by the demon of vain glory” In the Orthodox Church we have a number of Category of saints, for example we have martyrs, military martyrs, bishops, monks, nuns, lay reformers. Yet a very obscure category of saints is that of the Holy Fools. The character of the holy …

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