Kellia
Monastery · no year is recorded · Kellia
The inner desert beyond Nitria, where those who wanted to live more strictly withdrew to cells set far enough apart that no man could see or hear another. They met only on the Saturday and the Sunday, and a man missing from church was known to be ill.
No year is recorded anywhere. The sources that carry this house never date its founding, so the era is fixed by a dated person instead — that is not a founding date. Fixed by Palladius of Galatia (431).
Who
Nobody here yet — the sources name a founder this dataset does not hold.
Where
- Kellia the site; this page is the community that sat on it
Other monastery houses
- Monte Cassino about 529 (Gardner, 1911 — not Gregory) · Abbey of Monte Cassino
- Clonmacnoise 547 · Clonmacnoise
- Iona 565 · Iona
- Lindisfarne 635 (the edition’s margin; Bede does not date it) · Lindisfarne
- Streaneshalch two years after Bede’s own 655 · Whitby Abbey
- Bercingum before 674, the edition’s date for Earconwald’s consecration · Barking Abbey
- The Monastery of the Caves no year is recorded · Kyiv Pechersk Lavra
- Nitria no year is recorded · Nitria
- Sublacum no year is recorded · Subiaco
After The Lausiac History · Lausiac History VII (Clarke 1918), the place called Cellia.