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ARSENIUS (c. 354-450)

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ARSENIUS (c. 354-450) , an anchorite, said to have been See also:born of a See also:noble See also:Roman See also:family, who achieved a high reputation for his knowledge of See also:Greek and Roman literature. He was appointed by See also:Theodosius the See also:Great, See also:tutor of the See also:young princes See also:Arcadius and See also:Honorius, but at the See also:age of See also:forty he retired to See also:Egypt, where for forty years he lived in monastic seclusion at Scetis in the Thebais, under the spiritual guidance of St See also:John the See also:Dwarf. He is said to have gained the admiration of his See also:fellows by the extreme rigour of his See also:asceticism. The See also:remainder of his See also:life he spent at See also:Canopus, and Troe near See also:Memphis, where he died at the age of ninety-five. Of his writings two collections of admonitory See also:maxims are extant: the first, AtbavKaXia Kai aapaiveotr, containing instructions for monks, is published with a Latin version by Fr. Combefis in Auctanium biblioth. patr. novissim. (See also:Paris, 1672), pp. 301 f.; the second is a collection of forty-four See also:wise sayings put together by his See also:friends under the See also:title of 'A ro4 O yµama (see Cotelerius, Eccl. graec. monum., 1677, i. pp. 353-372). In the Roman See also:Catholic See also:Church his festival is on the 19th of See also:July, in the Orthodox Eastern Church on the 8th of May. His See also:biography by See also:Simeon Metaphrastes is largely fiction.

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