- JOHN CLIMACUS
- (570-649)an ASCETIC spiritual writer who became an ANCHORITE and promoted the dispassionateness as the ideal of CHRISTIAN PERFECTION.
Concise dictionary of Religion. 2012.
JOHN CLIMACUS
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