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Theodoret, in a large volume (the Philotheus in Vit. Patrum, l. ix. p. 793-863) has collected the 1ives and miracles of thirty Anachorets. Evagrius (l. i. c. 21) more briefly celebrates the monks and hermits of Palestine.
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