[52] For authorities for these statements, see Montalembert's Monks of the West, I. p. 315.
[53] S. Jerome, Prœf. in Reg. S. Pachomii, § 6.
[54] Pallad. Hist. Lausiaca, c. 7.
[55] S. John Chrysostom, in Matt., hom. VIII. The above account of the life of the monks in Egypt is by the eloquent pen of the Count de Montalembert.
[56] Rabbulus was afterwards consecrated Bishop of Edessa.
[57] Bollandus gives two lives; one is authentic, the other is not. The first states that he lived at Constantinople, from which he escaped to Gomon, threescore furlongs from the city, by water. The second, mistaking new Rome for old Rome, makes him voyage from Italy to Bithynia.
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