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MAREIA (Ancient city) EGYPT
Ammonas or (Amoun, founder of one of the most celebrated monastic communities in Egypt.
Obliged by his relations to marry, he persuaded his bride to perpetual continence
(Sozom. Hist. Eccl. i. 14) by the authority of St. Paul's Epistle to the Corinthians
(Socr. Hist. Eccl. iv. 23). They lived together thus for 18 years, when at her
wish, for greater perfection, they parted, and he retired to Scetis and Mt. Nitria,
to the south of Lake Mareotis, where he lived 22 years, visiting his sister-wife
twice in the year (Ibid. and Pallad. Hist. Laus. c. 7; Ruffin. Vit.Patr. c. 29).
He died before St. Antony (from whom there is an epistle to him), i. e. before
A. D. 365, for the latter asserted that he beheld the soul of Amoun borne by angels
to heaven (Vit. S. Antonii a S. Athanas. 60), and as St. Athanasius's history
of St. Antony preserves the order of time, he died perhaps about A. D. 320. There
are seventeen or nineteen Rules of Asceticism (kephalaia) ascribed to him; the
Greek original exists in MS.; they are published in the Latin version of Gerhard
Vossius in the Biblioth. PP. Ascetica, Paris. 1661. Twtenty-two Ascetic Institutions
of the same Amoun, or one bearing the same name, exist also in MS.
This text is from: A dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology, 1873 (ed. William Smith). Cited Nov 2005 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
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