<After a time spent in Choziba, George performed a miracle and fearing the praise of his fellow-monks, went secretly back to his brother, who lived in the Laura of Calamon.>
So he began to live with his brother: they occupied the so-called ‘Old church’. Keeping to the way of life proper to their condition (of ascetes), they never made themselves cooked food (and only had some) if people offered it to them; but they gave orders to the porter of the castrum <the fortified edifice in the centre of the laura, which contained the service rooms> to keep for them, from Sunday to Sunday, all the left-overs, both from the castrum and those brought back to him by the fathers. They would take those (scraps of cooked food) and feed on these. The pot where the food was kept was never washed or emptied, but was infested with worms and gave out a foul smell even from afar: but they were content with this food and abstained from wine.
(transl. Leah Di Segni)