Chapter
1 2| when he joined the order of monks. Blessed Sergius, the newly
2 2| hearts of certain god-fearing monks to visit him. The saint
3 2| ambition to be an abbot. The monks were but few in number,
4 3| head over a great number of monks. From the time he w…s appointed
5 3| hand, he heard two or three monks chatting together, or laughing,
6 3| the monastery. Here the monks lived, it is believed, for
7 3| incense, nor wax candles. The monks sang Matins at dawn with
8 3| this man!" But one of the monks, not having had anything
9 3| brotherhood." Again the monks, on Sergius' orders, invited
10 3| to hasten elsewhere. The monks came to the abbot in astonishment,
11 3| From this time forth the monks grew accustomed to being
12 3| than that of any of the monks, that several people were
13 3| came from the garden, the monks informed him, "This is he
14 4| a distance. Some of the monks even complained to the abbot, "
15 4| behold great numbers of monks gathered together in the
16 6| Stephen, if one of his monks could lead him to some desert
17 6| gathered there. Soon several monks from the Holy Trinity, unable
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