TY  - BOOK
AU  - Swan, Laura
AU  - Swan,Laura
TI  - The Forgotten Desert Mothers:  Sayings, Lives, and Stories of Early Christian Women
SN  - 0809140160   
U1  - C27.5 
PY  - 2001///
CY  - New York
PB  - Paulist Press
KW  - Women in Christianity
KW  - Monastic & Religious Life of Women
N1  - includes index and biblioraphy; The world of the desert mothers..........5  Desert spirituality .........20  The saying of the desert mothers...........32  Bright stars in the desert sky: Lesser known desert mothers .............71  Deaconessess of the early church .........106  Mentors of the monastic way: Communities adn their leaders ....127
ER  -