"There was an elder called Abba Pambo, and of him it was said that for three years he interceded with God saying: “Do not glorify me on earth”— and God so glorified him that nobody could stare him in the face on account of the glory his face possessed."
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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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