Note 066
From Chapter 37 of the Decline & Fall

Suicer. Thesaur. Ecclesiast. tom. ii. p. 205,218. Thomassin (Discipline de l'Eglise, tom. i. p. 150l, 1502) gives a good account of these cells. When Gerasimus founded his monastery, in the wilderness of Jordan, it was accompanied by a Laura of seventy cells.

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