Desert Fathers Dispatch

African Saints (from the Prolouge of Orhid)

• Uncovering the relics of Menas the Most Eloquent Martyr of Alexandria (Feb. 17)
• Bessarion the Great (Feb. 20), wonderworker of Egypt. Died in 466
• Abilius (Feb. 22), Bishop of Alexandria. Died in 98.

A Word From the Fathers & Mothers

“To throw yourself before God, not to measure your progress, to leave behind self will; these are the instruments of the work of the soul”

Abba Poemen