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Monasticism, Western
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/10472a.htmThe introduction of monasticism into the West may be dated from about A.D. 340 when St. Athanasius visited Rome accompanied by the two Egyptian monks Ammon and Isidore, disciples of St. Anthony.
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