ABSTRACT
Nevertheless, he felt his desire for the monastic life to be swerving. The news that his friends Bonosus and Rufinus had already made the sacrifice, and had settled, one on the coast of Dalmatia, and the other in Nitria, made him blush at such vacillations. He buried himself in the desert of Chalcis on the frontier of Syria, fifty miles from Antioch. He was to remain there three years, from 375 to 377.
