Nachor

In the second half of the third century, Christians began walking out of the Egyptian towns into the desert. By the middle of the fourth there were thousands of them, and by…

Fructuosus was the son of a Visigothic general, born into the ruling class of seventh-century Spain. The story that survives has him as a boy riding through the Bierzo country…

Macarius was born in Upper Egypt about 300. He worked as a camel driver hauling natron from the salt lakes, which is how he came to know the empty country west of the Nile…