Desert Mothers
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The Desert Mothers were female Christian ascetics living in the desert of Egypt, Palestine, and Syria in the 4th and 5th centuries CE. They typically lived in the monastic communities that began forming during that time, though sometimes they lived as hermits. Other women from that era who influenced the early ascetic or monastic tradition while living outside the desert are also described as Desert Mothers.
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See also
- Blaesilla
- Catherine of Alexandria
- Christian monasticism
- Demiana
- Domnina of Syria
- Eastern Christian monasticism
- John Chryssavgis
- Macrina the Elder
- Macrina the Younger
- Margaret the Virgin
- Mary of Egypt
- Menodora, Metrodora, and Nymphodora
- Saint Pelagia
- Syncletica of Alexandria
- Theoctiste of Lesbos
- Sarah of the Desert
- Melania the Younger
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