Lucius the Ascetic information

Lucius the Ascetic was a 5th-century Syrian Christian abbot at Enaton. He was one of the Desert Fathers. He was a companion of Longinus. Wikiquote has...

of the Five Emperors. Lucius Aelius Aurelius Commodus was born on 31 August AD 161 in Lanuvium, near Rome. He was the son of the reigning emperor, Marcus...

The Desert Fathers were early Christian hermits and ascetics, who lived primarily in the Scetes desert of the Roman province of Egypt, beginning around...

(late 5th century) Dates are floruits. Gaius of Corinth (5th century) Lucius the Ascetic (5th century) Longinus of Lycia (451–457) Mina (c. 605) John (689)...

adopted Marcus and Lucius Commodus, the son of Lucius Aelius. Marcus became M. Aelius Aurelius Verus, and Lucius became L. Aelius Aurelius Commodus. At...

Melania the Younger (c. 383 – 31 December 439) is a Christian saint, Desert Mother, and ascetic who lived during the reign of Emperor Honorius, son of...

consul suffectus in 100. Lucius Fabius Justus, a distinguished rhetorician, and a friend of both Tacitus and the younger Pliny. Lucius Julius Gainius Fabius...

Victorinus besieges and sacks the city of Autun, which had declared allegiance to Claudius. Lucius Domitius Aurelianus (or Aurelian), the cavalry commander who...

Cato was devoted to agriculture when not serving in the army. Having attracted the attention of Lucius Valerius Flaccus, he was brought to Rome. He was successively...

was the location of a community of ascetic monks in the Nile Delta in Egypt which grew after the 4th century CE as a satellite community of the better...

developed the ethical side of Socrates' teachings, advocating an ascetic life lived in accordance with virtue. Later writers regarded him as the founder...

analogy to Desert Fathers, for the ammas or female Christian ascetics living in the desert of Egypt, Palestine, and Syria in the 4th and 5th centuries AD....

religion' in ascetic communities. The British scholar Richard Bauckham reaches the similar conclusion that the beloved disciple, who also authored the Gospel...

He is the central figure of Christianity, the world's largest religion. Most Christians believe Jesus to be the incarnation of God the Son and the awaited...

the food of brutes instead of feeding on the bread of angels." Palladius, afterwards bishop of Helenopolis, on going to Egypt to embrace an ascetic life...

mats. At some point before his pursuit of asceticism, Macarius made his living smuggling saltpeter in the vicinity of Nitria, a vocation which taught...

communal, ascetic lifestyle. This lifestyle entailed a number of dietary prohibitions, traditionally said to have included aspects of vegetarianism. The teaching...

an ascetic Socrates. Socrates's theory of virtue states that all virtues are essentially one, since they are a form of knowledge. For Socrates, the reason...

the real world (1972). In a 'principles' approach to design theory, the De Stijl movement (founded in 1917) promoted a geometrical abstract, "ascetic"...

became the world's greatest pilgrimage site. It became the center for ascetic life for men and women from all over the world, who came to the Palestinian...

initially taught by ascetic leaders who set few guidelines, leading some Catharist practices and beliefs to vary by region and over time. The first mention...

Pistus Pior Pityrion Pistamon Peter the Pionite Paphnutius the Ascetic Paul Paul the Barber Paul the Great Paul the Simple Peter of Dios an Abba of Rome...

the confiscation of property and the death penalty for heretics. The Spanish ascetic and theologian Priscillian was accused of magic and libertinage,...

who is best known for his ascetic lifestyle which included Christian vegetarianism. Crab fought in the Parliamentary Army in the English Civil War before...

spends the last thirty years of her life alone as a penitent ascetic in a cave in a desert in the French region of Provence. At every canonical hour, the angels...