- Five months after Abba Alexandros returned to
Alexandria from Nicea, he felt the approach of death.
Like a candle that had burnt to the very end, the flame of
life was flickering in him. He had spent long years in
faithful service to his Lord and his Church, and now was
ready to rest.
While hovering between life and death, he kept
calling the name of Athanasius again and again. But he
received no answer, for no sooner had Athanasius
returned and fulfilled the missions entrusted to him by the
Emperor, than he retreated to the desert to stay with his
old teacher, the blessed St. Antoni.
But illumined by the light of another world, Abba
Alexandros cried out: "In vain do you hide yourself, O
Athanasius. For you cannot evade the mission designated
to you from on High". And with these prophetic words,
he commended his spirit into the Hands of the Father,
consoled by the vision of the Church guided by
Athanasius.
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(Elle)
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