Paul the Simple
Also: Paul the Simple of Egypt
Born: the year and the place are not known. Died by tradition in 339; the place is not known.
Egyptian farmer who became a monk in old age under Antony the Great.
Wrote in Coptic.
Places lived
- years not knownMount of Antony (Mount Colzim), now Monastery of Saint Anthony, Egyptmonkplace not sure
Works
1 work, in the order they were written. 1 work can be read here.
Filed here, not written by Paul the Simple
These texts are about this person, hold what this person said, or carry this name without good reason. Each page says which.
- Stories of Paul the Simple (from Palladius) about or from this personThe chapter on Paul the Simple from the Lausiac History of Palladius.1,366 words
How we know the dates and places
- Born not known
- Palladius, Lausiac History 22 gives no year; he was about 60 when he came to Antony
- Place of birth not known
- Palladius, Lausiac History 22 names no town
- Died by tradition
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_the_Simple ; no ancient source gives the year
- Place of death not known
- Palladius, Lausiac History 22
- Mount of Antony (Mount Colzim), years not known
- Palladius, Lausiac History 22 gives no years
- Mount of Antony (Mount Colzim), place not sure
- Palladius, Lausiac History 22: Antony gave him a cell three or four miles from his own; coordinates are the modern monastery