Saint Evagrios the Solitary, Christianity / Orthodoxy

Evagrios Pontikos was born in 345 or 346, probably at Ibora in Pontus. A disciple of the Cappodocian Fathers, he was ordained reader by St. Basil the Great and he accompanied St Gregory the Theologian to the Council of Constantinople in 381. He draws upon the living experience of the Desert Fathers of Egypt, mainly Copts, among whom he spent the last years of his life.

Christianity / Orthodoxy, Abbot Vasilios of Iveron Monastery, Diadochos of Photiki, Hesychius of Jerusalem, Nicephorus the Solitary, Saint Evagrios the Solitary, Saint Gregory Palamas, Saint Hesychios the Priest, Saint Isaac the Syrian, Saint Mark the Ascetic, Saint Seraphim de Sarov, Saint Symeon the New Theologian, The Philokalia, Unknown, etc.