The Desert Fathers
Translated by Helen Waddell
Constable, London, 1936
First written 4th–5th century
About this text
Helen Waddell’s translations from the Latin Lives of the Fathers: lives of desert saints and a selection of the sayings of the abbas, with an introduction that made the desert tradition widely read in English.
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The Desert Fathers. Translated by Helen Waddell. Constable, London, 1936.
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