Pachomius

After some years, the two hermits went together to the desert of the Thebaid and began the work to which God had called Pachomius, for Palemon died soon after.

Saint Athanasius The Father of Orthodoxy 1902

"I am called Pachomius, and I want to be a monk," was the answer.

Saint Athanasius The Father of Orthodoxy 1902

Those fourth-century manuscripts, probably buried by monks from the nearby monastery of Pachomius, contained Christian writings originally dating from the second and third century CE.

The Betrayer's Gospel Iricinschi, Eduard 2006

In the first half of the 4th century Pachomius (c. 290–346) established cenobitic (communal, in contrast to eremitic) monasteries for men and for women in Upper Egypt.

b. The Early Church 2001

The Church never rejected the Pachomius idea, it simply dragged its velvet slippers when it came to implementing it.

Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates Robbins, Tom 2000

So, Pachomius is the father of all nuns, and nuns had their beginnings in the desert.

Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates Robbins, Tom 2000

This, even though the document's text had relevance neither to St. Pachomius nor to any particular canon to which the sisterhood adhered, except maybe a tenuous connection to the desert lands, and the nature of that connection was not for Switters to know.

Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates Robbins, Tom 2000

The Church never rejected the Pachomius idea, it simply dragged its velvet slippers when it came to implementing it.

Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates Robbins, Tom 2000

On behalf of Pachomius, father of all nuns, on behalf of overbooked wombs around the world, Domino told the bishops to go fly a cotton-picking kite.

Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates Robbins, Tom 2000

The Vatican fathers did not officially abolish the Order of St. Pachomius-an act that might have engendered bad publicity-but in the hope of drying it up, they quietly reduced its budget by two-thirds.

Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates Robbins, Tom 2000