Nitria
Monastery · no year is recorded · Nitria
The mountain where Egyptian monasticism first gathered into a settlement rather than a solitude: five thousand men by the time Palladius stayed there, a church, seven bakeries, and physicians and confectioners among the brethren. Amoun was the first to settle it, when there were no monasteries there yet.
No year is recorded anywhere. The era is fixed by Palladius of Galatia (431), whom the source names — that is not a founding date.
Who
Nobody here yet — the sources name a founder this dataset does not hold.
Where
- Nitria the site; this page is the community that sat on it
Other monasteries
- 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 St Peter and St Paul 674, the second indiction and the fourth year of King Egfrid · Monkwearmouth-Jarrow Abbey
- Kellia no year is recorded · Kellia
- The Monastery of the Caves no year is recorded · Kyiv Pechersk Lavra
- Sublacum no year is recorded · Subiaco
After The Lausiac History · Lausiac History VII–VIII (Clarke 1918).