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Isidore of Pelusium (Saint)
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(c. 360 – after 433), a classically educated teacher of rhetoric (?) and later priest in Pelusium (eastern Nile Delta), withdrew to the nearby wilderness as an ascetic monk, nonetheless remaining active in church politics. Approximately 2,000 of his letters as well as apophthegmata have been preserved. The deacon Rusticus (6th cent.) translated 49 letters into Latin. The letters are addressed, in some cases, to high-ranking personalities (e.g. Emperor Theodosius II; Cyril of Alexandria"). They criticize deplorable states of affair in the church, advoca…

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Pollmann, Karla, “Isidore of Pelusium (Saint)”, in: Religion Past and Present. Consulted online on 19 March 2024 <http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/1877-5888_rpp_SIM_10584>
First published online: 2011
First print edition: ISBN: 9789004146662, 2006-2013



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