Chapter

1 2| Meteora. The father away the ascetics lived, the more reverence
2 2|      passed before the order ascetics knew about it. Each anchorite
3 3|     it eased the yoke of the ascetics, later it rendered it much
4 4|    attracted the interest of ascetics from all corners of the
5 4|   and Euthymius the Great. ~ Ascetics appeared in Syria during
6 4|     became famous. The elder ascetics of Russia, the starsti,
7 5|  monastic life~ As the first ascetics withdrew from the world