Histoire littéraire du mouvement monastique dans l'antiquité, vii
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At the centre of this 7th volume of the literary history of the monastic movement lies the long abbacy of the third superior of Lerins, Fauste de Riez (app. 430-460) who became the Bishop of his home town in Provence. His praise of his two predecessors, Honorat and Maxime, his sermons to the monks at Lerins, his letters to Rurice and Felix allow us to penetrate the spirit of this monachism, which also reflects the writings of Hilaire d'Arles and Eucher de Lyons. The ‘Seconde Règle de Pères' and the ‘Règle de Macaire' enlighten us completely on the tradition of the great insular monastery. Cenobitical from the beginning, Lerinian monachism developed the dimension of solitary life: hermits cells surround the community structure. In another direction, not opposed but complementary, some of the monks entered the episcopate. The monastic ideal of unity was imposed on all, ‘to be one', unchanging, popularized and simplified by God who is one.