The life of St Tithoës of the Thebaid
He left behind a few remembered sayings, the kind that circulated among the desert fathers as guidance for those who came after them. Asked once what path led to humility, he answered that it lay in abstinence, in prayer, and in the habit of holding oneself lower than everyone else, a teaching that matched the plainness of his own life. Those who knew him said that whenever he raised his hands in prayer his whole spirit seemed to leave the world behind. He reposed in peace, remembered less for any single event than for the steady, hidden discipline by which he had lived out his years among the Egyptian ascetics.
