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Celtic Monasteries.

One of the outstanding features of Celtic Christianity was the monastic movement. Thousands of people learned about the earliest monks from the deserts of Egypt and Palestine, and copied their way of life. Tiny hermitages were built on cliffs, and rocky outcrops became monastic sites. The Celtic monasteries have all gone now, but the same way of life is still kept by monks and hermits in Greece, Egypt and the East.

"We have not formed a community in the monastery for quiet or security, but for struggle and conflict. We have met here for a contest; we have embarked on a war against our sins ... The struggle is full of hardships, full of dangers, for it is the struggle of man against himself... day after day we wage a war against our passions..." (Faustus, a Celtic Christian who became Bishop of Riez in France.)

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