Our Father Thalassius flourished in the first half of the seventh century and was Presbyter and abbot of a monastery in the deserts of Libya. With love for godliness, this blessed Abba also united love for spiritual enlightenment and did a lot of studying of the Holy Scriptures. The Scripture . He was a contemporary of ST. Maximus the Confessor, with whom he was in spiritual communion . There are several letters to him by St... Maximus; and he is devoted to them a whole book containing an explanation of the difficult places of the Holy . The Scripture . St. Maximus highly honored this Abba, and in one letter he even calls him his mentor .. The blessed end of it followed probably no later than 660 g. The proposed four hundred sayings of his about love, abstinence, and spiritual life are full of edification. They are all mainly moral and ascetic content, but there are also those that contain dogmatic thoughts, which were used by the Holy Spirit. Damascene in his statement of faith . If you read in a row only the initial letters of the utterances in the original; then you get a certain thought, which is put at the beginning of each centurion.