Saint Mary of Egypt

Ronald E. Pepin, received his PhD from Fordham University. In addition to The Lives of Monastic Reformers, 1 and 2 (in collaboration with Hugh Feiss and Maureen O’Brien), his published translations include The Vatican Mythographers (Fordham, 2008), Anselm & Becket (PIMS, 2009), and Sextus Amarcius: Satires (DOML: Harvard, 2011).Hugh Feiss, OSB, is a monk of the Monastery of the Ascension in Jerome, Idaho. He earned his licentiate in philosophy and his doctorate in theology at Sant’Anselmo and is managing editor of the series Victorine Texts in Translation (Brepols/New City Press). He published Essential Monastic Wisdom, a thematic anthology of Benedictine and Cistercian texts (HarperSan Francisco, 2000). For Cistercian Publications he has translated works of Peter of Celle and Achard of Saint Victor and collaborated on Saint Mary of Egypt: Three Medieval Lives in Verse and The Lives of Monastic Reformers,1 and 2.

In their introduction, Feiss and Pepin do an excellent job of putting together the background and first context of the story.The Catholic Historical Review

• Table of ContentsForeword   ix1.  The Story of Mary of Egypt and the Texts   12.  Flodoard of Reims: On Mary the Egyptian and Zosimas   553.  Hildebert of Lavardin:  The Life of Saint Mary of Egypt   714.  Anonymous Spanish Poet: The Life of Saint Mary the Egyptian   115