Лавсаик

The story of the lives of the saints and the blessed fathers - Bishop Palladium Elenopolsky

The writer of this book Palladium, originally galatyanin, first traveled several years in different countries of Egypt, then went to Palestine, where arrived in Bithynia, which was ordained bishop Elenopolskogo and had a close association with St. John Chrysostom. But protecting saint of the attacks of his enemies, he was forced into hiding eleven months in a solitary cell of. When he was in Rome. All the marked travel palladium, as can be seen from the contents of the book date back to 388 to 404 years after Christ.

Continuing now travel Palladium with great zeal collecting information about the lives of saints and the blessed fathers and some wives and collected information offered in this book, as he says in the preface, "to excite the zeal to imitate in men of wanting to live the life of heaven ... and in the example the love of God to women choosing to adorn the crown of abstinence and purity. "

This book was written at the request of and belief (as seen in the Preface), a famous husband, who held the imperial Byzantine court a very important position, on behalf of the Loves, so the book is dedicated to him as a writer, and the name of his was named "Lavsaik."

Cokrat in the fourth book of his "Ecclesiastical History," said briefly about the Egyptian fathers who want to be more aware of them points to a book written by palladium, and says: "Who wants to know how they (the fathers of the Egyptian desert) lived up doing that They spoke in favor of listening to how they obeyed and animals - there is a special book, compiled by a monk of palladium disciple Evagrius. In this book, he offered detailed information about them mentions the wives of his life similar to the men, of whom it is said, ".

The Orthodox Church gives his testimony about the importance of this book for the children of her that since ancient times, decided to rule on the Matins of Great Lent from among four positions readings borrow two readings of "Lavsaik" all the days of Lent except Saturdays and Sundays.