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'''Saint Pachomius the Great''', born around 292 near Thebes, Egypt, founded cenobitic monasticism, creating the first communal monastery at Tabennisi c. 320. A pagan-turned-Christian after army conscription, he was baptized c. 314 and trained as a hermit before an angel’s vision urged him to build a community. His *Rule*—balancing work, prayer, and discipline—grew nine monasteries, housing thousands by his death from plague on May 9, 348. His system, influencing Benedict, reshaped desert spirituality, blending solitude with shared life. | |||
Saint Pachomius the Great, born around 292 near Thebes, Egypt, founded cenobitic monasticism, creating the first communal monastery at Tabennisi c. 320. A pagan-turned-Christian after army conscription, he was baptized c. 314 and trained as a hermit before an angel’s vision urged him to build a community. His *Rule*—balancing work, prayer, and discipline—grew nine monasteries, housing thousands by his death from plague on May 9, 348. His system, influencing Benedict, reshaped desert spirituality, blending solitude with shared life. | |||
Canonized pre-Congregation, Pachomius’s feast day, May 9, is honored in the West (May 15 in Coptic tradition), with no surviving shrine—his Tabennisi relics lost. Patron of monks, his legacy—via Coptic vitae—lives in his *Rule*, translated by Jerome. Venerated in Catholic and Coptic churches, Pachomius’s vision of ordered monasticism endures, a desert father whose communal ideal fortified early Christianity. | Canonized pre-Congregation, Pachomius’s feast day, May 9, is honored in the West (May 15 in Coptic tradition), with no surviving shrine—his Tabennisi relics lost. Patron of monks, his legacy—via Coptic vitae—lives in his *Rule*, translated by Jerome. Venerated in Catholic and Coptic churches, Pachomius’s vision of ordered monasticism endures, a desert father whose communal ideal fortified early Christianity. | ||