
#485 African Roots of the Church - Mike Aquilina
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The Origins of Monasticism in Africa
There was monasticism going on in every generation of the church. It developed very gradually through those centuries. The first great figures of asceticism emerge in Egypt on the African continent. And then later on, we have one of the early rules, the rule of St. Augustine emerging from North Africa.
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