About the book: 2014 / Collection of tales about the saints and blessed fathers of the Church - an invaluable monument of Christian piety of the first centuries of Christianity. Examples from the lives of such pillars of the Church as Anthony the Great, Macarius of Egypt, Pimen the Great and many other ascetics who inhabited the deserts of Egypt and Palestine in the 4th and 5th centuries taught many generations of Christians the exact fulfillment of the Gospel commandments, selfless love for God, and contempt for temporary goods and the desire for eternal life.