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Updated: May 22, 2025
Friars. 5. Clerks Regular. All of these have communities of women, either actually affiliated to them, or formed on similar lines. Saint Benedict distinguishes four sorts of monks: 1. Coenobites, living under an abbot in a monastery. 2. Anchorites, who retire into the desert. 3. Sarabaites, dwelling two or three in the same cell. 4. Gyrovagi, who wander from monastery to monastery.
"It struck me," Mark went on, "that most of our paying guests are gyrovagues and sarabaites." "What an accusation to make," said Brother Nicholas, flushing with expectant curiosity and looking down his long nose to give the impression that it was the blush of innocence and modesty.
One of the things for which Mark detested Brother Nicholas was the habit he had of showing off his poor casuals to the paying guests. It took Mark a stern reading of St. Benedict's Rule and the observations therein upon humility and obedience not to be rude to Brother Nicholas sometimes. "Brother," he asked one day. "Have you ever read what our Holy Father says about gyrovagues and sarabaites?"
This rigid theory was supported by the most uncharitable conduct. To complete the darkly terrible picture of the Church in the fourth century, we need only note the various orders of fanatical monks, filthy in their habits, densely ignorant, hopelessly superstitious, amongst whom may be numbered the travelling mendicants called Sarabaites.
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