PACHOMIUS

Meaning of PACHOMIUS in English

— Pachomian , adj. , n.

/peuh koh"mee euhs/ , n.

Saint , A.D. 292?-348?, Egyptian ascetic: founder of the cenobitical form of monasticism.

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