Moving On Up

      From the mountain cave of Antony (272 A.D.) in Egypt, to the central monastic life of Martin at Tours (ca, 371 A.D.), it took roughly a century to get things moving toward my Celtic ancestors. The life of both these men are presented in Butler's Lives of The Saints, edited by Michael Walsh. The cover of my copy is shown.

      On page 16 it states that Anothy lived to 105 years. Not bad for a fellow who lived on bread and water some of the time. Now Martin of Tours (called Gaul at his time) is given a few more pages, 371- 373. It appears he was a soldier in the Roman army before he took this new belief called Christianity. No telling who might join this movement called monks. Bet you a lot of these folks were introverts. The move of Christianity to the northwest section of my family's mountains took a bit more time to arrive.  The arrival of this belief system and a discussion is found in the text by Salway (pp.236-239, and pp. 512-529) which is presented in the post of May 7th. It can also be found in the text by Jones and Mattingly (pp. 295-298) shown on post June 3rd, and the text by Blair (pp.145-147) shown on post May 28th. Moving on up from Egypt to the NW section of Wales is yet to come.