Encyclopedical Hagiography

I bought a book in Frostburg ...  Desert Fathers and Desert Mothers

"... follow the book to its source" (Vitae Patrum)  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitae_Patrum


there's more! (Apophthegmata Patrum)  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apophthegmata_Patrum