A daily drop of wisdom from the men and women who turned to the desert for spiritual testing and transformation on their journey toward God.
Sunday, March 15, 2009
Sharing
Daniel said of Aresenius, "All the years he lived near us, we gave him the minimum amount of food to last each year, and every time we went to visit him, he shared it with us."
Born about 380 A.D. in Alexandria, Egypt, to a well-respected Christian family of Macedonian heritage, Syncletica was well-educated and was said to be beautiful. When her parents died, she sold all her possessions, cut her hair as a sign of consecration and moved with her blind sister to the family tomb outside Alexandria to begin her life of ascesis. Women soon began to gather around her and she agreed to be their spiritual mentor.