Shem`on the Graceful: Discourse on the Solitary Life 9780728303010

THE LATE seventh century in the Syrian Church saw the flourishing of several noted monastic writers, amongst them Shem`o

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Shem`on the Graceful: Discourse on the Solitary Life
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