John Cassian brought the teaching of the Egyptian monks to the West: the twelve books of the Institutes on the monk's life and the eight principal faults, the twenty-four Conferences with the Abbots of Egypt, and his seven books On the Incarnation against Nestorius. Modern English from the Post-Nicene Fathers translation.
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Contents
The Conferences, Conference 15
1Abbot Nesteros on the Three Kinds of Gifts2What We Should Admire in the Saints3Abbot Macarius Raises a Dead Man4Abbot Abraham and the Nursing Mother5Abbot Abraham Heals a Lame Man6Miracles Are No Measure of a Man’s Merit7True Excellence Lies in Humility, Not in Miracles8Casting Out One’s Own Faults Is the Greater Wonder9A Pure Life Matters More Than Miracles10Paphnutius and the Test of Chastity