THE LIFE OF THE MONASTIC MARY OF EGYPT
Commemorated on the 5th Sunday of the Great Lent, April 21
The Life of the Monastic Mary of Egypt: At a certain Palestinian monastery on the outskirts of Caesarea there lived a saintly monk, Zosima. Having dwelt at the monastery since his childhood, he asceticised at it until he reached age 53, when he was disturbed by the thought: "Is there to be found in...