The Paradise or garden of the holy fathers
Subtitle: being histories of the Anchorites, recluses monks, Coenobites and ascetic fathers of the deserts of Egypt between A.D. CCL and A.D. CCCC circiter
By: compiled by Athanasius Archbishop of Alexandria ; Palladius Bishop of Helenopolis ; Saint Jerome and others ; now translated out of the Syriac with notes & introductions by Ernest A. Wallis Budge.
Contributors: Athanasius, Saint, Patriarch of Alexandria, d. 373; Palladius, Bishop of Aspuna, d. ca. 430; Jerome, Saint, d. 419 or 20; Budge, E. A. Wallis Sir, 1857-1934
Publisher: St. Nectarios Press
Published: 1984
Place of publication: Seattle, Wash
Language: eng
Subjects: Monasticism and religious orders -- Egypt -- History -- Sources.; Asceticism -- Egypt -- History -- Sources.
Other titles: Paradise of the holy fathers
Notes: Includes index.

Reprinted from the original edition of Chatto & Windus, London, 1907.
Table of contents: value: v. 1. The life of St. Anthony, by Athanasius Archbp. of Alexandria ; Histories of the fathers by Palladius, Bp. of Helenopolis ; The rule of Pachomius ; St. Jerome's Histoy of the fathers.; value: v. 2. The counsels of the holy men and the questions & answers of the ascetic brethren generally known as the sayings of the fathers of Egypt.