Monasteries; Hermits; Monks; Anthony, of Egypt, Saint, ca. 250-355 or 6; Persecution; Patriarchs and patriarchate; Paul, the Hermit, Saint, d. ca. 341; Historians; Administration; Abbots; Churches; Iconography; Manuscripts; Mary, Blessed Virgin,...
Cities and towns; Christian converts; Byzantine Empire; Greek language; Coptic language; Copts; Persecution; Politics; Roman Empire; Arab Conquest of Egypt; Arabic language; Monasteries; Coptic Church; Muslim converts from Christianity;
Saints; Apophthegmata Patrum; Asceticism; Hermits; Hagiography; Anthony, of Egypt, Saint, ca. 250-355 or 6; Monks; Miracles; Synaxarion; Jerome, Saint, d. 419 or 20
Alexandria (Egypt); Monasteries; Monks; Cities and towns; Bishops; Asceticism; Nestorians; Justinian I, Emperor of the East, 483?-565; Theodora, Empress, consort of Justinian I, Emperor of the East, d. 548.