The Monastic Order
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the chosen ones of the monastic habit · the common order of the monks · the monastic order · the monks
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Letters
The monastic order whose discipline Glycerius is accused of disgracing.
How long will you be senseless, and counsel ill for yourself, and trouble me, and shame the common order of the monks?
Barlaam and Josaphat
Communities of Christian ascetics in India, repeatedly persecuted by King Abenner.
But raging most of all against the chosen ones of the monastic habit, he raised against them a truceless and herald-less war.
And when in Egypt too the monasteries began to be established and the multitudes of monks to be gathered together, and the fame of their virtue and their angelic manner of life spread to the ends of the inhabited world and came also to the Indians, it stirred these as well to the like zeal, so that many of them, leaving all things behind, took to the deserts and, in a mortal body, took up the way …
But the leaders and chiefs of the monastic order — some, reproving his lawlessness, endured the end that comes through martyrdom and attained the blessedness that never ceases;