The Paradise/Volume 1/The history of the Monks/Chapter 26

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The Paradise, Volume 1, The history of the Monks (1907)
by Palladius of Galatia, translated by Ernest Alfred Wallis Budge
26 The Triumph of the Three Brethren
Palladius of Galatia3931349The Paradise, Volume 1, The history of the Monks — 26 The Triumph of the Three Brethren1907Ernest Alfred Wallis Budge

Chapter xxvi: The Triumph of Three Brethren

AND we saw there also three brethren who were learned in speech and glorious in their lives and deeds, and because of their splendid works they were about to be raised to the grade of the episcopate. They had cut off their ears in the fear of God, but although they had done this with great boldness (or presumption), the object with which they had done it was a good one, for [they wished] that henceforth no man might vex them.

Here end the Triumphs of Three Brethren