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St. PACHOMIUS the Great
of Upper Egypt,Abbot of Tabennisi
(Coptic: BAKHUM)
IV Century
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Born of pagan parents in the Upper Thebaid of Egypt, St. Pachomius (292-346) was a soldier before his baptism in 314. He became a hermit in 317. Called the Father of Cenobitic Monasticism, he wrote a rule that balances the communal life with the solitary life. The monks live in individual cells but work together for the common good of the community. Prayer is both corporate and private. He established his first monastery around 323 in Tabennisi. St. Pachomius died during a plague, and at the time of his death, he was the spiritual leader of about 3,000 monks.
St. Jerome translated the rule of St. Pachomius into Latin in 404, and only this translation survives. The rule of St. Pachomius influenced St. Benedict in preparing his own rule for monks.
Karen Rae Keck
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*** About: Quick Reference:** *** Catholic Patron Saints:** *** 1912 Catholic Encyclopedia Entry: (Read with caution).**
- About: General:
- Luc Brésard: History of Monastic Spirituality, Chapter 5: Pachomius. Includes extracts from the Coptic language lives of St. Pachomius. (Scroll to "Texts" section near end.) Roman Catholic author; opinions expressed not necessarily in agreement with Orthodoxy. ---Scourmont
- Henry Chadwick: Pachomios and the Idea of Sanctity, (1983). In Fr. Sergei Hackel, ed.,The Byzantine Saint, San Bernardino, Calif.: Borgo, 1983.
- James M. Drayton: Pachomius as Discovered in the Worlds of Fourth Century Christian Egypt, Pachomian Literature and Pachomian Monasticism -- A Figure of Hagiography or History?(2002). Thesis, University of Sydney. --- Univ. Syd.
- Fr. Steven Peter Tsichlis:The Spiritual Father in the Pachomian Tradition: Pachomius as starets. --- St. Paul's Irvine
- St. Dionysius Exiguus: Life of St. Pachomius, Abbot of Tabennisi: Dionysius translated an anonymous Greek life into Latin. Baker translation. --- Vitae Patrum
- Gennadius: Illustrious Men, 7
- Palladius:Lausiac History, 32:
- An Encomium on Pakhom the Great. Fragments of the Coptic text with English translation in Alla I. Elanskaya: _The Literary Coptic Manuscripts in the A. S. Pushkin State Fine Arts Museum in Moscow,_[Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1994], p. 85.
- His conversion of St. Silvanus the Actor:
*** A Short Life of St. Silvanus:[Phil Thompson's St. Silouan Page]** - His interactions with St. Macarius the Younger of Alexandria:
*** Palladius:Lausiac History, 18.xii: ** - Disciples who became abbots after him:
*** St. Theodore the Sanctified;**
*** St. Orsiesius;** - Some other disciples: St. Abraham the Poor;
- His own teacher: St. Palemon.
- Translators, Biographers, etc.
*** St. Jerome wrote about Pachomius in Latin, making him known in the West, and preserved the text of his rule.**
*** Palladius of the Historyvisited Tabennisi and wrote about life there.** - Works:
- Extracts from the Rule and Sayings of St. Pachomius in Luc Brésard: History of Monastic Spirituality. (Scroll to "Texts" section near end.) [Scourmont]
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