Feast day: May 9
St. Pachomius the Great
A former Roman soldier in Egypt who, after the example of hermits, gathered monks into the first organized community under a written rule — the father of communal monasticism.
Before him, monks lived alone; he invented the monastery — common life, common work, and a daily rule — the pattern every religious order still follows.
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