 | Evaristo Breccia - 1922 - 408 pagina’s
...the town began to be covered with monasteries, which grew more numerous every day. In the Vth and VIh centuries there were no less than six hundred of them,...monasteries. The Persians in their siege of Alexandria (618-619) carried ruin and death among the monks ; great numbers were put to death by the sword, others... | |
 | Otto F. A. Meinardus - 2002 - 376 pagina’s
...monasteries, which grew more numerous as time went on. In the fifth and sixth centuries, we are told, there were no less than six hundred of them, all built like fortresses. The most famous group of monasteries is at the Ennaton, or ninth milestone on the road from Alexandria.... | |
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VIh centuries there were no less than six hundred of them, all built like fortresses : « they were like pigeon-cots » said Severus of Achmunein. The group of monasteries of the Hennaton (ninth mile) was the most famous. The Museum possesses 16 epitaphs... 