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“Strive with all your might to bring your interior activity into accord with God, and you will overcome exterior passions.”

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Arsenius the Great

St. Arsenius the Great, active from around 350 to 450 AD, is renowned for his strict asceticism and dedication to poverty. He is considered a model of desert monks and had a profound impact on the monastic movement. St. Arsenius founded several monasteries in the desert, which became centers of the later monastic movement. more

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