(1) I also knew Adolius at Jerusalem. He was a Tarsian by birth who had come to Jerusalem by an altogether different way, not at all by the way we traveled, but cut out for himself a strange way of life. For his ascetic practice was beyond man to such a degree that the very demons trembled at his strictness of life and no one dared to rival him. Because of his excessive self-control and all-night vigils he was actually suspected of being a monster. (2) For in Lent he would eat only every five days, although at other times he ate every other day. But the big thing he did was this: From the time of evening until the brotherhood gathered again in its house of prayer, he would stand on the Mount of Olives, on the Hill of Ascension, the place where Jesus was taken up. There he would stand, singing psalms and praying, and even if it snowed or rained, or there was a frost, he would remain there unshaken.
(transl. Meyer)
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