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	Pachomius
		Pachomius, who died around AD 345 in Tabennisi, Egypt, was one of the founders of Christian monasticism.
		Pachomius was a young Egyptian who according to tradition was raised a pagan and became a Christian after service in the Roman army.
		Pachomius seems to have invented the community or cenobitic organization, in which male or female monastics lived together and had their possessions in common under the leadership of an abbot or abbess.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/pa/Pachomius.html (205 words)

	St. Pachomius
		Pachomius took a little oil, and mixed it with the salt, which he pounded small, and added a few wild herbs, which they were to eat with their bread.
		Pachomius preferred none of his monks to holy orders, and his monasteries were often served by priests from abroad, though he admitted priests, when any presented themselves, to the habit, and he employed them in the functions of their ministry.
		Pachomius formed his disciples to so eminent a degree of perfection chiefly by his own fervent spirit and example; for he always appeared the first, the most exact, and the most fervent, in all the exercises of the community.
	www.ewtn.com /library/MARY/PACHOMI.htm (2381 words)

	St. Pachomius - Ökumenisches Heiligenlexikon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Weingarten (Der Ursprung des Mönchthums, Gotha, 1877) held that Pachomius was once a pagan monk, on the ground that Pachomius after his baptism took up his abode in a building which old people said had once been a temple of Serapis.
		Pachomius wished his monks to emulate the austerities of the hermits; he drew up a rule which made things easier for the less proficient, but did not check the most extreme asceticism in the more proficient.
		It seems that Pachomius found the solitude of the eremitical life a bar to vocations, and held the cenobitical life to be in itself the higher (Ladeuze, op.
	heiligenlexikon.de /CatholicEncyclopedia/Pachomius.html?...&print=true (728 words)

	Saint Patrick's Church: Saints of May 9
		Pachomius, son of pagan parents, was unwillingly drafted into the Theban army at the age of 20, probably to help Maximinus wage war against Licinius and Constantine.
		Pachomius wrote the first communal rule for monks (which some say survives in a Latin translation by Saint Jerome and others say is lost), an innovation on the common type of eremitical monachism.
		Pachomius also built a church for poor shepherds and acted as its lector, but he refused to seek ordination for the priesthood or to present any of his monks for ordination, although he permitted priests to join and serve the communities.
	www.saintpatrickdc.org /ss/0509.htm (2386 words)

	Saint Pachomius the Great
		Saint Pachomius was an Egyptian by birth and was a pagan in his youth.
		After that, learning from Christians about the one God and seeing their devout life, Pachomius was baptized and went to the Tabennisiot desert, to the famous ascetic Palamon, with whom he lived in asceticism for ten years.
		Obeying the angel of God, Pachomius began building many cells, although there was no-one in that place but himself and his brother John.
	www.fatheralexander.org /booklets/english/saints/pachomius_great.htm (389 words)

	MavicaNET - Pachomius, Saint
		Pachomius was born in Egypt around 290, and is said to have served as a soldier, and to have become a Christian shortly after completing his military service.
		Pachomius is the founder of Christian monastic life in community, as opposed to hermitages.
		Pachomius obviously put his military experience to good effect and grouped communities in patterns, based on the skills or crafts of the inmates of each.
	www.mavicanet.com /lite/por/34672.html (503 words)

	Pachomius (c. 292 - 346)
		But by degrees, as the church became more and more familiarized with the surrounding world, the ascetic instinct, under the influence of the dualism of the Neo-Platonizing, Alexandrian theology, and seduced by the example of the monks of the Serapis worship, fell into extravagances; and the ascetics fled into the deserts, and became hermits.
		Pachomius was also swayed by this tendency; and in his twentieth year he settled in the desert to fight for the prize of asceticism under the training of Palemon, one of the most austere pupils of St. Anthony.
		As the desert became peopled by anchorets, the laura arose; that is, a number of novices in asceticism built their cells around the cell of some hero in asceticism, in order to follow his example, and to receive his training; and thus the first trace of organization originated.
	www.earlychurch.org.uk /pachomius.php (574 words)

	Prologue: hagiographies of the saints
		Pachomius was born in Egypt and, in his youth, was a pagan.
		Following that, he learned of the One God from Christians and witnessing their devout life, Pachomius became baptized and withdrew to the Tabennisi wilderness, to the famous ascetic Palamon with whom he studied the ascetical life for ten years.
		The humility, love of labor and abstinence of this holy father was and remains a rare example for the imitation of the vast number of monks.
	www.mpc.org.mk /English/Calendar/prologue.asp?id=1410 (333 words)

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		Pachomius' conversion had been brought about by the charity of the Christians of Thebes, and he was haunted by the image of the primitive community in Jerusalem where everything was held in common.
		Pachomius was a man animated by the Spirit, a man of prayer; he was able to spend the whole night in prayer, even several nights, as many passages from the Lives witness (Text 8).
		Pachomius had an exalted idea of cenobitism: he bequeathed it to us in three kinds of parables which are just as valid for ourselves (Text 16).
	www.scourmont.be /studium/bresard/05-pachomius.html (9079 words)

	Archdiocese of Milwaukee - Archived News - May 9 - Feast of St. Pachomius
		Pachomius was born in Egypt in the late third century.
		Pachomius and Palemon lived a very austere life and were totally dedicated to God.
		Pachomius was the first person to organize monks and develop a "rule" for them.
	www.archmil.org /news/ShowArchivedNews.asp?ID=591 (189 words)

	The Compass newspaper -- Saint of the Day
		In about 320, Pachomius built a cell on the Nile River at Tabennisi, after having a vision in which he was instructed to build a monastery.
		Because of his opposition to Arianism - a heresy that said Jesus was not of the same substance as the Father - Pachomius was denounced by followers of Arius at a council of bishops at Latropolis.
		Neither Pachomius, nor any of his monks, were ever ordained to the priesthood, though he used to serve as a lector at a church he built for poor shepherds.
	www.thecompassnews.org /compass/2001-05-04/01cn0504f2.htm (499 words)

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		St. Pachomius was born about 292 AD in the Upper Thebaid in Egypt and was inducted into the Emperor's army as a twenty-year-old.
		So prevalent did the desire to emulate the life of Pachomius and his monks become, that the holy man was obliged to establish ten other monasteries for men and two nunneries for women.
		Pachomius was the first monk to organize hermits into groups and write down a Rule for them.
	www.metalog.org /files/Pachomius.txt (261 words)

	"The Importance of Striving For Salvation"
		Pachomius is one of the greatest of the Egyptian desert fathers.
		Pachomius obediently followed this command and began building cells even though there was no one there except him and his brother John.
		Pachomius went to his reward in 346 at the age of 60.
	www.innerlightproductions.com /thoughts/july2599.htm (838 words)

	Pachomius the Great - OrthodoxWiki (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Pachomius was born to pagan parents in Thebaid (Upper Egypt).
		Pachomius lived the rest of his life managing his monastery, performing wonders, fighting the demons, and of course in fervent prayer.
		Pachomius died around the year 348 at the age of fifty-three, and was buried on a hill near the monastery.
	orthodoxwiki.org /Pachomius_the_Great (708 words)

	History of the Christian Church, Volume III: Nicene and Post-Nicene Christianity. A.D. 311-600. \| Christian Classics ...
		Pachomius, as abbot, or archimandrite, took the oversight of the whole; each cloister having a separate superior and a steward.
		Pachomius also established a cloister of nuns for his sister, whom he never admitted to his presence when she would visit him, sending her word that she should be content to know that he was still alive.
		Pachomius, after his conversion never ate a full meal, and for fifteen years slept sitting on a stone.
	www.ccel.org /ccel/schaff/hcc3.iii.vii.xi.html (867 words)

	St. Irene Chrysovalantou \| Venerable Theodore the Sanctified
		Theodore's mother, learning that he was at the Tabennisi monastery, came to St. Pachomius with a letter from the bishop, asking to see her son.
		Pachomius appointed St. Theodore as overseer of the Tabennisi monastery, and withdrew to a more solitary monastery.
		After the death of St. Pachomius, St. Theodore directed the Tabennisi monastery, and later on he was at the head of all the Thebaid monasteries.
	www.stirene.org /Archives/May/0516-StsTheodore.htm (536 words)

	Pachomius of Tabenna (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Pachomius at once resolved to be a Christian and carried out his resolution as soon as he was dismissed from military service.
		Pachomius wrote the first communal rule for monks, an innovation on the common type of eremitical monachism.
		Pachomius is one of the best-known figures in the history of monasticism.
	www.stmarycoptorthodox.org /pachomius_of_tabenna.htm (1160 words)

	St. Pachomius - Ökumenisches Heiligenlexikon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		First his elder brother joined him, then others, but all were bent upon pursuing the eremitical life with some modifications proposed by Pachomius (e.g., meals in common).
		Soon, however, disciples came who were able to enter into his plans.
		In his treatment of these earliest recruits Pachomius displayed great wisdom.
	www.heiligenlexikon.de /CatholicEncyclopedia/Pachomius.html?print&print=true (728 words)

	Pachomius, Archbishop And Hieromartyr Of Chernigov
		Archbishop Pachomius, in the world Peter Petrovich Kedrov, was born on July 30, 1876 (according to another source, 1877) in Yaransk, Vyatka province, in the family of a priest (according to another source, his father was a psalm-reader).
		In 1917-18 Vladyka Pachomius took part in the Local Council of the Russian Orthodox Church, and on October 30, 1917 delivered a report concerning the procedure of electing the patriarch.
		In the morning Archbishop Pachomius came into the office and asked the professor whether he knew where and when they were being sent.
	www.orthodox.net /russiannm/pachomius-archbishop-and-hieromartyr-of-chernigov.html (2125 words)

	St. Pachomius Library
		Born of pagan parents in the Upper Thebaid of Egypt, St. Pachomius (292-346) was a soldier before his baptism in 314.
		Pachomius died during a plague, and at the time of his death, he was the spiritual leader of about 3,000 monks.
		St. Jerome wrote about Pachomius in Latin, making him known in the West, and preserved the text of his rule.
	www.voskrese.info /spl/Xpachomy-gt.html (327 words)

	A History of Christianity in Egypt - The Saints
		Pachomius was born in the Upper Thebaid in Egypt and as a young man was a soldier in the Roman army.
		Pachomius realized that a community of monks working together could accomplish more good, both for themselves and society, than hermits living isolated by themselves.
		Saint Pachomius founded his first monastery in Tabenna around 323, and by the time of his death during a plague, he was the leader of over 3,000 monks.
	touregypt.net /chiste3.htm (3761 words)

	Lives of the Saints, May 14, St. Michael Garicoits, St. Pachomius
		Among the recruits was Pachomius, a young pagan, then in his twenty-first year.
		Marveling at this kindness, Pachomius inquired who they were; he was told they were Christians, who hoped for remuneration only in the life to come.
		Pachomius opposed vanity and vainglory in all its manifestations.
	www.magnificat.ca /cal/engl/05-14.htm (963 words)

	"The Importance of 'Place' in the Spiritual Life"
		St. Pachomius lived from 292 to 346, but his relatively brief life had a profound impact on the development of monasticism.
		A pagan boy born in the present-day Egyptian city of Esneh, he was drafted into the army to fight in a war at the age of twenty.
		Pachomius was visited one night by local Christians who came to the camp to give food and water to the conscripts since life in the camps was very miserable.
	www.innerlightproductions.com /thoughts/mar2199.htm (755 words)

	Pachomius, Egypt, Coptic Church
		Born of pagan parents in Upper Egypt, this most important of the early Coptic saints came in contact with a local Christian community that befriended him while he was a conscript in the Roman army in 312.
		After he had completed his army service, Pachomius settled in a small community, was baptized, and began a life of regular prayer, fasting, and almsgiving.
		The monastic communities (including the convents run by the sister of Pachomius) were based on a constantly evolving rule, which the founder extracted from New Testament teachings of Jesus.
	www.dacb.org /stories/egypt/pachomius_.html (483 words)

	St. Pachomius (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Antony of Egypt is usually called the ‘founder of monasticism’, although he was a hermit who later travelled to give encouragement to other religious living in isolated cells in the Egyptian desert.
		There was a certain military precision in Pachomius’ method; monks could be transferred from one community to another; each house was given a local superior and all leaders met twice annually, to render an account of their community life.
		Pachomius’ rule was thus highly centralised and disciplined, as well as being austere, though not extreme (unlike some of the hermitages).
	www.hullp.demon.co.uk /SacredHeart/saint/StPachomius1.htm (181 words)

	ST PACHOMIUS (292-346) - Online Information article about ST PACHOMIUS (292-346) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Pachomius spent his life in organizing and directing the See also:
		Difficulties arose between Pachomius and the neighbouring bishops, which had to be composed at a See also:
		Greek Life of Pachomius over the Coptic may be said to be established; the See also:
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /ORC_PAI/PACHOMIUS_ST_292_346_.html (342 words)

	SAINTS AND FEASTS
		Since thou hadst shown forth the life of the Angels while in a body, O God-bearing Pachomius, thou wast also counted worthy of their glory; and with them thou standest before the Lord's throne, interceding that divine forgiveness be granted unto all.
		Saint Pachomius was born of pagan parents in the Upper Thebaid of Egypt.
		While quartered with the other soldiers in the prison in Thebes, Pachomius was astonished at the kindness shown them by the local Christians, who relieved their distress by bringing them food and drink.
	www.goarch.org /en/Chapel/saints.asp?contentid=55 (158 words)

	Prolog: May 16
		Seeing a convent not far away which was under the spiritual direction of Pachomius' sister, she entered the convent and was tonsured a nun.
		Pachomius took Theodore with him and entrusted him with the duty of establishing this new monastery.
		After the death of Pachomius, Theodore became the abbot of all Pachomius' monasteries and lived to a ripe old age.
	www.westsrbdio.org /prolog/my.html?day=16&month=May (1353 words)

	Selected (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Being in the army, he had the opportunity during a campaign to become acquainted with Christian beneficence, and wished to become one; and truly, upon finishing his term in the army he was baptized.
		Becoming acquainted with the ascetic type of life in the Theban desert, Pachomius chose, for his future deeds a secluded area near the river Nile known by the name of Tabennisi.
		The whole community of monks was divided by Pachomius into 24 categories, depending on the development of their spiritual life and was under the direction of one main Abba.
	www.fatheralexander.org /booklets/english/saints_may_june.htm (17554 words)

	Juniorate Diary - August 17, 2002
		St. Pachomius is considered to be the father of the cenobitic or community form of monastic life.
		He lived in Egypt in the fourth century and was the father of whole villages of monks who inhabited areas of upper Egypt.
		Pachomius asked to receive this name and this great monastic father as his patron.
	www.conceptionabbey.org /AbbeyDiary/AD2002/081702.htm (469 words)

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