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And when he had stopped there for a little while, again he was seized
with a longing and desire for humility, and, taking advantage of the
silence of night, made his escape in such a way that this time he sought no
neighbouring district, but regions which were unknown and strange and
separated by a wide distance. For embarking in a ship he managed to travel
to Palestine, believing that he would more securely lie hid if he betook
himself to those places in which his name had never been heard. And when
he had come thither, at once he sought out our own monastery which was
at no great distance from the cave in which our Lord vouchsafed to be
born of a virgin. And though he concealed himself here for some time, yet
like "a city set on an hill" (to use our Lord's expression) he could not
long be hid. For presently some of the brethren who had come to the holy
places from Egypt to pray there recognized him and recalled him with most
fervent prayers to his own Coenobium.
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