Pachomius, St., an Egyptian hermit, the founder of conventual monachism, who established the first institution of the kind at Tabenna, an island in the Nile; he also established the first nunnery under his sister (292-348). Festival, May 14.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
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