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https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/23723| Title: | Monasticism in St. Jerome's letters and lives of the hermits |
| Authors: | Coleiro, Edward |
| Keywords: | Monasticism and religious orders -- Egypt -- History Monasticism and religious orders -- Rules Hermits in literature Religious literature -- History and criticism |
| Issue Date: | 1951-01 |
| Publisher: | The Royal University Students' Theological Association |
| Citation: | Coleiro, E. (1951). Monasticism in St. Jerome's letters and lives of the hermits. Melita Theologica, 4(1), 1-13. |
| Abstract: | The monastic movement as it definitely took shape in the fourth century, began in Egypt and may well have been connected 'with the persecutions as Jerome writes in P. 4. In the Decio-Valerian persecution, 250-260, many Christians tried to avoid arrest by flight. That was not easy in Italy, Spain and Gaul as all these lands were thoroughly occupied by Rome and fugitives had little chance of casting off their pursuers; but in Egypt it was different. The Roman occupation scarcely went beyond the coastline and the hinterland with its deserts afforded a sure protection. |
| URI: | https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar//handle/123456789/23723 |
| Appears in Collections: | MT - Volume 04, Issue 1 - 1951 MT - Volume 04, Issue 1 - 1951 |
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