Witness to Holiness: Abba Daniel of Scetis
edited with an Introduction by Tim Vivian
ISBN: 9780879074197 
$39.95 Paperback 
Cistercian Publications

Abba Daniel, priest and monastic superior of Scetis, lived in the sixth century. Some dozen stories about him, and a few sayings attributed to him, survive in Greek, Syriac, Arabic, Coptic, and Ethiopic. Here, for the first time, are translations of all the material associated with Abba Daniel, a model of holiness in the austere world of the desert.

A True Easter
The Synod of Whitby 664 AD
by Benedicta Ward
ISBN: 9780728301702 
$5.95 Paperback 
Cistercian Publications

Often presented as a clash between Irish and Roman missionaries representing two different kinds of Christianity, the Synod of Whitby held in 664 decided the date of Easter in the English church. Author Benedicta Ward shows that, in fact, the traditions were mingled and that a common faith and a common devotion to Easter as the central feast of the Resurrection enabled participants to resolve difficulties caused by a difference between calendric calculations.