Paragraph:
154
Translation:
Abba Jordanes the grazer told us this story:
Two other anchorites and myself went to see Abba Nicholas in the ravine of Betasimous - for he resided in a cave, midway between the monastery of Saint Elpidius and the so-called monastery of the Strangers - and we found a layman with him … <edifying testimony given by the layman.>
(transl. Leah Di Segni)
Summary:
Abba Nicholas resides in a cave midway between the monastery of St Elpidus and the monastery of the Strangers, from an early 7th cent. collection.