Theodore of Pherme
Egyptian monk
Abba Theodore of Pherme was one of the Desert Fathers quoted in the Apophthegmata Patrum (Sayings of the Desert Fathers).
Quotes edit
- Ward, Benedicta (1984). The sayings of the Desert Fathers: the alphabetical collection. Kalamazoo, MI: Cistercian Publications.
- Abba Theodore of Pherme had acquired three good books. He came to Abba Macarius and said to him, 'I have three excellent books from which I derive profit; the brethren also make use of them and derive profit from them. Tell me what I ought to do: keep them for my use and that of the brethren, or sell them and give the money to the poor?'
The old man answered him in this way, 'Your actions are good; but it is best of all to posses nothing.'
Hearing that, he went and sold his books and gave the money for them to the poor.- Saying 1
- It was said of Abba Theodore of Pherme that the three things he held to be fundamental were: poverty, asceticism, flight from men.
- Saying 8
