The Wonders of God in the Wilderness

Name: The Wonders of God in the Wilderness
Author: Bp. Richard Challoner

Bp. Richard Challoner

The Wonders of God in the Wilderness, or The Lives of the Eastern Deserts (1755): Challoner's lives of the Fathers of the desert, from St. John the Baptist, St. Paul the first hermit and St. Antony to St. Hilarion, St. Pachomius, the two Macarii, Simon Stylites, St. Sabas, John Climacus, John the Almoner and the penitent women Thais, Pelagia and Mary of Egypt.

Source: Challoner's introduction and his twenty-seven lives. The American editor's preface, his added lives of St. Jerome, St. Basil, St. Gregory Nazianzen and St. John Chrysostom (translated from a French work) and the appended Aphorisms and Examples are left out. Running heads and page numbers are dropped; the OCR was cleaned of line-break hyphens and the commonest recognition slips, and isolated slips remain. Raw OCR in sources/en-US-originals/.