Tabenna is a Christian community founded in Upper Egypt around 320 by Saint Pachomius. It was the motherhouse of a federation of monasteries known as the Koinonia.

Saint Isidora, also known as Saint Isidore and Isidora of Tabenna, was a Christian nun and saint of the 4th century AD. She is considered among the earliest fools for Christ. [1]

May 10, 2015 · Saint Isidora, Fool-for-Christ, struggled in the Tabenna monastery in Egypt during the sixth century. Taking upon herself the feat of folly, she acted like one insane, and did not …

After visiting several monastic establishments and bestowing liberal alms, she came to the Tabennisi monastery in Egypt, where the abbess was the nun Theodula, known for her strict …

Jul 25, 2021 · For her efforts, the Lord granted Saint Eupraxia a gift of wonderworking. Through her prayers she healed a deaf and dumb crippled child, and she delivered a demon-possessed …

Theodorus of Tabennese (c. 314 – 368), also known as Abba Theodorus and Theodore the Sanctified, was the spiritual successor to Pachomius and played a crucial role in preventing …

Saint Isidora of Egypt, also known as Isidora the Simple, Isidora the Stulta, Isidora the Fool, or Isidore of Tabenna, was a nun in the monastery at Tabenna, Egypt.

Tabenna was the original monastery established by Saint Pachomius sometime after 325 AD. Saint Pachomius ‘s sister Maria, with his help, established a woman’s monastery near her …

Pachomius used sometimes to go into a vast uninhabited desert, on the banks of the Nile, called Tabenna, in the diocese of Tentyra, a city between the Great and Little Diospolis.

The Paradise, Volume 1, The Rule of Pachomius at Tabenna (1907) by Palladius of Galatia, translated by Ernest Alfred Wallis Budge