"They also used to say of him that he once braided cord for two baskets and stitched it together as one basket but didn’t realize it until he approached the wall, for his logismos was occupied in contemplation."
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Abba was one of the Desert Fathers quoted in the Apophthegmata Patrum (Sayings of the Desert Fathers).
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