Desert Father

English

Noun

Desert Father (plural Desert Fathers)

  1. (religion, historical) Any of the early Christian hermits, ascetics and monks who lived mainly in the Scetes desert of Egypt, beginning around the third century AD, and were a major influence on the development of Christianity.
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