THE PARADISE OF THE HOLY FATHERS

By the power of our Lord Jesus Christ we begin to write the Book of the Histories of the glorious Acts of the Holy Fathers, [who were] monks of the desert and who hated the world and all that belongeth thereto, which was composed by the holy man of spiritual excellence Mar Palladius, Bishop of the City of Helenopolis, and was addressed to Lausus the Prefect.