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of the ancient Stoudios Monastery in Constantinople. He set himself to reform his monastery and restore St. Basil's spirit in its primitive vigour. To do this and ensure its permanence, he saw need for a more practical code of laws to regulate details of the daily life, supplementary to St. Basil's Rules. He therefore drew up constitutions, later codified, which became the norm at Stoudios and gradually spread to the monasteries in the rest of the Empire. Thus, to this day the Rule of St. Basil and

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