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The Life & Regimen of the Blessed  & Holy Teacher Syncletica 
Translated by Elizabeth Bryson Bongie

The life and teachings of the famous fifth-century Desert Mother whose influence upon desert spirituality has hitherto been largely unacknowledged.


'The most profound example we have of early Christian female 
monastic instruction . . . a marvelous companion to the 
Sayings of the desert elders.'
-Columba Stewart osb, author of Cassian the Monk (New York: Oxford University Press, 1998).

'A hagiographical treasure, this Life presents one of the few 
female spiritual guides to have flourished among 
the great Desert Fathers.'
-Susan Ashbrook Harvey, author of Asceticism and Society in Crisis: 
John of Ephesus and The Lives of the Eastern Saints (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990).

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