Complex sentence: He did not defend himself, but the women had a difficult labor and did not deliver until she confessed that Macarius was not the father, incident he fled to the Scetis valley to live as a desert hermit.
Split into simpler sentences: He did not defend himself, but the women had a difficult labor and did not deliver until she confessed that Macarius was not the father. Following this incident he fled to the Scetis valley to live as a desert hermit.