9 The Sayings of the Desert Fathers - St Arsenius the great #shorts #starsenius #orthodox

Arsenius was born in Rome about 360. A well educated man, of senatorial
rank, be was appointed by the Emperor Tbeodosius I as tutor to the
princes Arcadius and Honor ius. He left the palace in 394 and sailed
secretly to Alexandria. From there he went to Scetis and placed himself
under the guidance of A bba John the Dwarf. He became an anchorite near
Petra in Scetis. He seems to have had only three disciples, A lexander,
Zoilus and Daniel. He was renownedfor his austerity and silence and this
combined with his learning made him seem somewhat forbidding to the
Coptic monks. After the second devastation of Scetis in 434 he went to
the mountain ofTroe where he died in 449.