ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN AUGUST Saints celebrated on the 27th of August WELCOME! SAINT POEMEN, DESERT FATHER This great light among the ancient fathers of the desert forsook the world about the year 385, and retired into the great wilderness of Scete, in Egypt. He often passed several days, sometimes a whole week, without eating; but it was his constant advice to others that their fasts should be moderate, but constant, and that they should take some nourishment every day. It was a maxim with him, that no monk ought ever to taste wine, or to seek any superfluous gratification of the senses. THE BROTHERS RETIRED TO TERENUTHI The barbarians ravaging Scete in 395, he and his brothers retired to Terenuthi, near an old temple of idols, and lived there for several years. Anubis, the eldest, and Poemen governed this little community by turns. Of the twelve hours of the night, they allotted four for work, four for singing psalms together, and four for taking their rest....