Lives of the Monks of Palestine

Name: Lives of the Monks of Palestine
Author: Cyril of Scythopolis

Cyril of Scythopolis · 555 · Before the division · public-domain-original

4 claims in this dataset rest on this source.

People it attests

Euthymius the Great 1 claim
Sabbas the Sanctified 1 claim

Events it narrates

Euthymius founds his lavra 428
Sabbas founds the Great Lavra 483

Seven lives, Euthymius and Sabbas the longest of them, by a monk of Sabbas' own Great Lavra. He wrote a lifetime after Euthymius but gathered his material from men who had known the founders, and he is unusually careful with dates and names for the genre — he is the reason Palestinian monasticism can be dated at all.